US Patent Issued to Intelligrated Headquarters on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for manipulating articles" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,647, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"Method and system for manipulating articles" was invented by John Simons (St. Louis), Matthew R. Wicks (St. Charles, Mo.), Grant R. Jeremiah (Steeleville, Ill.) and Benjamin Baer (Kirkwood, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments described herein relates, to an item manipulation system that can include a control system and an end effector. The end effector can include a tube defining a channel between a first end and a second end. The tube can include, a flexible suction cup that can be disposed within the channel of the tube...