US Patent Issued to MUJIN on May 13 for "Robotic multi-gripper assemblies and methods for gripping and holding objects" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,480, issued on May 13, was assigned to MUJIN Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic multi-gripper assemblies and methods for gripping and holding objects" was invented by Hironori Mizoguchi (Tokyo) and Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a transport robot includes receiving image data representative of a group of objects. One or more target objects are identified in the group based on the received image data. Addressable vacuum regions are selected based on the identified one or more target objects. The transport robot is command to cause the selected addressable vacuum regions to hold and transport th...