ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,821, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and OLIVER CRISPIN ROBOTICS Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Robotic arm assembly construction" was invented by Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain), David Scott Diwinsky (West Chester, Ohio) and Charles Burton Theurer (Alplaus, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical arm assembly including a bendable arm. In some embodiments, the bendable arm includes a body including a plurality of links and a plurality of joints movably coupling the plurality of links; and a plurality of wires including one or more control wires. For example, the b...