ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,534, issued on May 27, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"Manipulating device and method for operation thereof" was invented by Leif Pudewills (Esslingen, Germany), Markus Singer (Plochingen, Germany) and Tobias Waibel (Ostfildern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulating device, by which flexible flat objects can be repositioned and which has a movable gripping device which includes a support structure and at least one gripping unit. The gripping unit has a clamping arm which, together with a clamping surface of the support structure, delimits a clamping gap, in which a flat object portion can be f...