US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 4 for "Controlled compliant gripping and manipulating system for a robot" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,100, issued on March 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Controlled compliant gripping and manipulating system for a robot" was invented by Miguel Arturo Saez (Clarkston, Mich.), John Patrick Spicer (Plymouth, Mich.), Muhammad E. Abdallah (Farmington Hills, Mich.), James W. Wells (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Tom Malburg (Romeo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliant end effector includes a robot mounting bracket and a component support member. The component support member includes a side surface and a top surface. A component clamping system includes a first clamp member operable to move towar...