US Patent Issued to Cognibotics on Dec. 9 for "Method for determining placement of parallel-kinematic machine joints, and a parallel-kinematic machine with high stiffness" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,628, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cognibotics AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for determining placement of parallel-kinematic machine joints, and a parallel-kinematic machine with high stiffness" was invented by Torgny Brogardh (Molndal, Sweden), Klas Nilsson (Lund, Sweden) and Peter Helgosson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining placement of support-platform joints (8a, 9a, 10a, 11a, 12a, 13a) on a support-platform (17) of a parallel kinematic manipulator, PKM. The PKM comprises: the support-platform (17), a first support linkage (SL1), a second support linkage (SL2) and a third support link...