ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,792, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).
"Robotic gripper apparatus" was invented by Jason Vincent Gallagher (Lomita, Calif.), Patrick Minwoo Jeon (Torrance, Calif.), Keith McKay (Los Angeles), Richard Kingston (Los Angeles), Vincent Arunas Burokas (Los Angeles) and Lukas Philip Czinger (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of robotic grippers are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a robotic gripper may include three gripper fingers arranged on a mechanical end effector, the three gripper fingers configured to translate radially when actuated to contact and align ...