ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,058, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KINOVA INC. (Boisbriand, Canada).
"Signal transmission device for articulated mechanism" was invented by Jean-Francois Forget (Montreal) and Nicolas Frigon (Laval, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic arm having at least pair of structural members rotatably coupled to one another, with a first one of the structural members defining a central passage. A communications link is at least partially within the robotic arm for signal transmission between within the robotic arm. The communications link includes a signal transmission device having a coiled portion, with ends of the coiled por...