US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Oct. 21 for "Methods and apparatus for controlling a gripper of a robotic device" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,620, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for controlling a gripper of a robotic device" was invented by Neil Neville (Waltham, Mass.), Kyle Edelberg (Claremont, Calif.) and Scott Gilroy (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for controlling a robotic gripper of a robotic device are provided. The method includes activating a plurality of vacuum assemblies of the robotic gripper to grasp one or more objects, disabling one or more of the plurality of vacuum assemblies having a seal quality with the one or more objects that is less than a first thr...