ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,064, issued on May 20, was assigned to KUKA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Germany).
"Robot" was invented by Martin Riedel (Augsburg, Germany) and Dieter Schaab (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot has a robotic arm, including a base with a base contact surface and an end-effector that is connected to the base by joints which can be adjusted by robotic arm joint drives such that the end-effector has at least five, and in particular at least six, actuated degrees of freedom with respect to the base. The robot further includes a robot joint module with a first contact surface that can be fastened-in particular, releasably-to th...