ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,810, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Robot arm and robot" was invented by Noboru Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Masaki Hirano (Tokyo), Shota Narasaki (Tokyo), Hayato Hoshino (Tokyo) and Shingo Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot arm includes a robot hand including a hand base to which first and second finger connection portions are connected, and a finger moving portion to move the first and second finger connection portions with respect to the hand base such that a distance between a first finger and a third finger increases or decreases. A rotation axis rotating the hand base passes throu...