ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,901, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Conveyance hand with attraction pad" was invented by Katsumasa Yamazaki (Tochigi, Japan), Hitoshi Sato (Tochigi, Japan) and Hideo Tanaka (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance hand which conveys an object, includes a base, and a plurality of supports arranged on the base and configured to support the object. The plurality of supports include a first attraction pad configured to attract the object, and a second attraction pad configured to attract the object by a force weaker than the first attraction pad."
The patent was filed on Dec. 10, 2021, under A...