US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for robotic grippers with fiber optic spectroscopy" (Massachusetts, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,067, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Systems and methods for robotic grippers with fiber optic spectroscopy" was invented by Taskin Padir (Westborough, Mass.), Akshay Vaidya (Westford, Mass.), Hillel Hochsztein (Brighton, Mass.), Nathaniel Hanson (Boston), Kristen Dorsey (Roslindale, Mass.), Joel B. Willick (Olivette, Mo.), Tarik Kelestemur (Boston) and Deniz Erdogmus (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems for determining one or more properties of an object. In an embodiment, a system includes a gripping element, a light source, a probe element including an ...