ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,464, issued on May 13, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUXENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).
"Gripper" was invented by Fares Kfoury (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and Mathieu Grossard (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper having a frame and a finger with a first distal phalanx and a second proximal phalanx articulated on about a first axis. The first phalanx and the second phalanx connected to enable a rotation of the first phalanx about a second axis substantially parallel to the first axis, such that the finger can pass from an opening configuration to a clamping configuration, when the first p...