US Patent Issued to KUKA Systems North America on March 25 for "System and method for automated assembly of components" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,225, issued on March 25, was assigned to KUKA Systems North America LLC (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

"System and method for automated assembly of components" was invented by Timothy James Marx (Macomb, Mich.), Thomas William French (Petersburg, Mich.), Aaron K. Kinsella (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Thomas Jon Nieman (Shelby Township, Mich.), Scott McIsaac (Waterford, Mich.), Craig Richard Nilson (Macomb, Mich.), Kenneth Michael Boulan (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Jason Edmunn Messner (Allenton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically handling components to be assembled onto a product on an assembly line includes...