ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,022, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).
"Robot arm with an additional output link" was invented by Martin Riedel (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot arm includes multiple joints and multiple links which can be adjusted relative to one another by movements of the joints of the robot arm. Each driven joint is paired with a drive device, and each drive device is designed to adjust the robot arm joint paired therewith, namely by automatic actuation of a motor of the respective drive device. The robot arm has a distal end link designed in the form of a tool flange, a hand link arrange...