US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on April 29 for "Arm module for a modular robotic arm of an industrial robot" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,860, issued on April 29, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Arm module for a modular robotic arm of an industrial robot" was invented by Peter Kastler (Vienna), Clemens Maier (Bludenz, Austria), Thomas Morscher (Vienna), Armin Pehlivan (Nuziders, Austria) and Christoph Zech (Moedling, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arm module has a housing with a first connection side and a second connection side. The first connection side is embodied to be controllably rotatable about an axis of rotation relative to the second connection side. The first connection side has a rotatable first connection device and the...