ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,005, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hitachi High-Tech Corp. (Tokyo).
"Robot hand for gripping and operating a pipette" was invented by Yoshiki Kanai (Tokyo), Hiroki Takahashi (Tokyo), Toshifumi Mitsuyama (Tokyo) and Toru Shibata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand for gripping and operating a pipette, the robot hand including: an electric gripper; a pair of first finger members opened and closed by the electric gripper; a pair of second finger members provided on the first finger member and having a pipette gripping surface; and an operating mechanism installed on the first finger member to operate an operation tar...