ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,553, issued on June 10, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and OLIVER CRISPIN ROBOTICS Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Tool stabilization mechanism and related methods" was invented by Kirti Arvind Petkar (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Jayasankar Madhusoodanan Nair (Bengaluru, India) and Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool stabilization mechanism is disclosed including a stabilizing device connected to a tool and movable between a deployed position and a non-deployed position, and an actuator for actuating the stabilizing device to move ...