ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,462, issued on May 13, was assigned to COVAL (Montelier, France).
"Fluid device for suction gripping" was invented by Emmanuel Buffat (Mauves, France), Loic Joguet (Soyons, France), Michel Cecchin (Montelier, France) and Pierre Milhau (Chatuzange-le-Goubet, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid flow device including a plurality of fluid flow functional modules each fastened on a respective individual base includes: two parallel lateral faces via which the bases are adapted to be placed against one another; a primary channel passing through the base to open out in its two lateral faces; a front face along which the module exte...