US Patent Issued to Automated Industrial Machinery on Sept. 2 for "System and method for gripping and centering workpieces for subsequent processing" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,566, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Automated Industrial Machinery Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"System and method for gripping and centering workpieces for subsequent processing" was invented by Volodymyr Berezhanskyi (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamping device for gripping and centering a workpiece includes an internal housing with a radial cutout and a pair of slider slots. An outer collar is rotatably mounted around the internal housing and includes a radial cutout and an internal actuation track. Sliders are positioned in the slider slots and engage the actuation track, such that rotation of the collar causes ...