US Patent Issued to Kubota on Dec. 30 for "End effector including cutting blade and pulley assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,720, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"End effector including cutting blade and pulley assembly" was invented by Michael Perrin (Sakai, Japan) and Pius Ng (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cutting device includes a base plate, a motor attached to the base plate, a driving cord including a first end and a second end, the first end being attached to the motor, and a cutting assembly. The cutting assembly includes a fixed blade that is fixed to the base plate, and a driven blade that moves with respect to the fixed blade. The second end of the driving cord is attached to the driven blade to mo...