ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,822, issued on March 18, was assigned to GFM GmbH (Steyr, Austria).
"Method for controlling a gripper" was invented by Harald Dietachmayr (Sierning, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper, which removes blanks from a web of material lying flat, includes gripping elements which can each be actuated separately. The gripping elements are mounted independently of one another in a frame so as to be displaceable perpendicularly to a reference plane parallel to the web of material. The gripping elements are set against the web of material and actuated in a takeover position of the gripper aligned with respect to the blank by mean...