ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,271, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nemo Power Tools Ltd. (Hong Kong).
"Vacuum gripper" was invented by Nimrod Rotem (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum gripper comprises a rigid base element and a loop-shaped vacuum seal element. The base element has first and second opposite sides. The seal element is attached at least indirectly to the second side and protruding therefrom in a direction away from the first side. The seal element comprises a contact surface that at least partially contacts with an object surface and an encircling surface oriented transversely to the contact surface so as to define a chamber. ...