ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,820, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Robotic grippiing system with contact-sensitive pads" was invented by David Gabriel Hallock (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a robotic manipulator having one or more contact pads. The contact pads have features therein that are detectable to determine or measure a degree to which they have worn down. Such features may include fluorescent materials, colorful materials, and/or RFID tags. A robotic environment may include one or more sensors to detect such features, and may be configured to generate a signal ind...