ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,483, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hexagon Metrology Inc. (North Kingstown, R.I.).
"Parametric and modal work-holding apparatus" was invented by Jonathan J. O'Hare (East Greenwich, R.I.) and Jonathan Dove (Woodstock, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting each workpiece of a plurality of non-identical workpieces, each workpiece having a distinct workholding specification. The system includes a workholder configured to autonomously execute a plurality of workholding operations pursuant to parameters of a specified pre-defined workholding mode specified from a plurality of distinct, pre-defined workholding m...