US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 29 for "Multi-turn drive assembly and systems and methods of use thereof" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,672, issued on July 29, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-turn drive assembly and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Jeff Hudgens (San Francisco), Damon K. Cox (Jarrell, Texas) and Rajkumar Thanu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are multi-turn drive assemblies, systems and methods of use thereof. The multi-turn drive assemblies enable a robot link member to have a maximum rotation of at least 360 degrees about an axis. The multi-turn drive assemblies can be incorporated into a robot arm for enabling 360 degrees rotation of one or more link members...