ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,932, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Device for automatically producing screw connections" was invented by Ingo Engler (Soest, Germany), Miguel Lebrato-Rastrojo (Paderborn, Germany), Thomas Albert Roebbecke (Erwitte, Germany), Frank Jagow (Erwitte/ Bad Westernkotten, Germany) and Dirk Rokossa (Unna, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for automatically producing screw connections, having an articulated arm robot and a screwing unit which can be rotated about an effector axis by an output element of an end element of the articulated arm robot. The screwing unit has a housing,...