US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on March 18 for "Intelligent gripper with individual cup control" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,837, issued on March 18, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Intelligent gripper with individual cup control" was invented by John Aaron Saunders (Waltham, Mass.), Christopher Everett Thorne (Waltham, Mass.), Matthew Paul Meduna (Waltham, Mass.) and Joshua Timothy Geating (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods related to intelligent grippers with individual cup control are disclosed. One aspect of the disclosure provides a method of determining grip quality between a robotic gripper and an object. The method comprises applying a vacuum to two or more cup assemblies of the robotic gripp...