US Patent Issued to DUPONT ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Moveable gripper for gripping a container and heating contents of the container through dynamically controlled thermal contact and heat settings" (Delaware, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,496, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DUPONT ELECTRONICS INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Moveable gripper for gripping a container and heating contents of the container through dynamically controlled thermal contact and heat settings" was invented by James Daniel Tremel (Hockessin, Del.), Matthew James Manelis (Raleigh, N.C.), Chun Keung Wong (Talleyville, Del.), Wei Wu (Hockessin, Del.) and Todd Mahlon Strubhar (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to an apparatus that includes a moveable gripper element including a flexible inner sleeve. A mechanical energy source mechanism is communicat...