ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,703, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Handling device for a manufacturing environment" was invented by Gerhard Kleinpeter (Tiefenbach, Germany), Philip Obst (Munich) and Jan Marvin Schafer (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handling device for a manufacturing environment includes a manufacturing apparatus for additive manufacturing of an object, a robot device, a transport device, where the robot device is configured to interact with at least one component of the manufacturing apparatus, and a coupling device which is configured to couple the robot device detachably to the transport devi...