ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,753, issued on June 10, was assigned to Core Flow Ltd. (Daliyat el-Karmel, Israel).
"Suction gripper for warped workpiece" was invented by Roie Taboch (Yokneam Eilit, Israel), Daniel Yahides (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel) and Ronen Lautman (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper to grip a workpiece includes a body with a flat gripper surface. The gripper surface includes a plurality of openings that are distributed over the gripper surface, each of the openings connectable to a source of suction. At least one flow restrictor is located between the plurality of openings and a connector of the gripper to the source of suction...