US Patent Issued to FerRobotics Compliant Robot Technology on Nov. 4 for "Apparatus and method for the automatic changing of grinding materials" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,073, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FerRobotics Compliant Robot Technology GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Apparatus and method for the automatic changing of grinding materials" was invented by Ronald Naderer (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: a receiving surface configured to receive a stack of grinding discs; a frame arranged substantially parallel to the receiving surface so that the stack of grinding discs is positioned between the receiving surface and the frame, the frame only partially overlapping an outer rim of a topmost grinding disc of the stack of grinding discs; and a mechanical pretensioning u...