US Patent Issued to Mujin on July 1 for "Robotic system with gripping mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,871, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mujin Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic system with gripping mechanism" was invented by Lei Lei (Tokyo), Xu Chen (Tokyo), Yixuan Zhang (Tokyo), Pai Zheng (Tokyo), Yufan Du (Tokyo), Hironori Mizoguchi (Tokyo), Shekhar Gupta (Tokyo) and Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object gripping assembly and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the object gripping assembly includes a first carrying plate with a first mounting track extending along a first axis and two or more second carrying plates movably carried by the first mounting track. Each of th...