ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,699, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nimble Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"End effector for robotic picking and packing" was invented by Simon Kalouche (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic end effector tool having multiple manipulator elements. The end effector includes a body, a suction cup movable relative to the body between a retracted position and an extended position, a plurality of fingers spaced around the suction cup and being actuatable between an open condition and a clamped condition, and a roller coupled to at least one of the fingers such that the roller is arranged to rotate about a first axis....