US Patent Issued to Mujin on Sept. 23 for "Robotic multi-surface gripper assemblies and methods for operating the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,054, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Mujin Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic multi-surface gripper assemblies and methods for operating the same" was invented by Shintaro Matsuoka (Tokyo), Hironori Mizoguchi (Tokyo), Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo), Yoshiki Kanemoto (Tokyo) and Jinze Yu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for operating a transfer robot and a multi-surface gripper to grasp and transfer objects is disclosed."

The patent was filed on April 13, 2022, under Application No. 17/720,206.

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