US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on March 25 for "Bias device for biasing a gripping device by biasing working arms apart" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,690, issued on March 25, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Bias device for biasing a gripping device by biasing working arms apart" was invented by Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.) and Riyad Moe (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising: (a) a first working arm; (b) a shuttle located on the first working arm, and (c) a bias device; wherein the bias device biases the first working arm when the shuttle is in a first position, and wherein the bias device is free of biasing the first working arm when the shuttle is in a second position."

The patent was filed on July 8, 2022, under Appl...