US Patent Issued to Corning on March 11 for "Fluid-operated gripping apparatus and method for holding a workpiece in a working orientation" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,928, issued on March 11, was assigned to Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Fluid-operated gripping apparatus and method for holding a workpiece in a working orientation" was invented by Alejandro Aguilar (Painted Post, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid-operated gripping apparatus for holding a workpiece having a curved sidewall in a working orientation, and associated methods for gripping and holding a workpiece, are provided. Three fluid-operated actuators, each including an actuator rod and a moveable piston arranged within a cylinder, are equally spaced around a perimeter of a workpiece and receive fluid from a single pres...