US Patent Issued to FANUC on May 20 for "Automatic gripper fingertip design to reduce leftover in random bin picking applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,066, issued on May 20, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Automatic gripper fingertip design to reduce leftover in random bin picking applications" was invented by Yongxiang Fan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tetsuaki Kato (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated technique for robot gripper fingertip design. A workpiece design and a bin shape are provided as inputs, along with a parameterized gripper design. The gripper parameters define the lengths of segments of the fingertips, and the bend angle between fingertip segments. A fingertip shape, defined by selecting parameter values, is used in a simulated p...