ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,952, issued on July 1, was assigned to IONIC ENGINEERING Ltd. (Lively, Canada) and EMEW Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Automated systems, methods, and tools for harvesting electrodeposited metals" was invented by Andre Dumais (Sudbury, Canada), Paul Bazinet (Sudbury, Canada), Michael Kehoe (Sudbury, Canada), Chris Morgan (Sudbury, Canada), Ian Ewart (Squamish, Canada), Ajay Patel (Baroda, India) and William Gower (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated robotic harvesting systems and methods for harvesting electrodeposited metals from a cell, and specialized end of arm tooling for use in automated robotic harvesting systems and ...