ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,138, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEURA ROBOTICS GMBH (Metzingen, Germany).

"Gear arrangement as well as robot with gear arrangement" was invented by Josef Ezechias (Herrenberg, Germany), Jannik Goz (Albstadt, Germany) and David Reger (Metzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear arrangement (14, 14a) suitable for use in an articulated robot arm is configured with a drive body (16, 16a) with at least one drive-side drum (20, 22) arranged rotatably about a drive axis (18, 18a), and a drive output body (24, 24a) with at least one output-side drum (28, 30) arranged rotatably about a drive output axis (26, 26a). At leas...