ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,135, issued on April 15, was assigned to CHANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Changzhou, China).
"Humanoid finger mechanism" was invented by Hongliang Hua (Changzhou, China), Shihong Wu (Changzhou, China), Xiaofeng Wu (Changzhou, China), Yongjiang Chen (Changzhou, China), Xiaojun Wang (Changzhou, China) and Cheng Huang (Changzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humanoid finger mechanism includes: a finger seat; at least one proximal knuckle, located at an outer side of the finger seat; at least one middle knuckle, located at an outer side of the at least one proximal knuckle; a distal knuckle, located at an outer side of the at ...