US Patent Issued to Ocado Innovation on Nov. 4 for "Systems, devices, articles, and methods for prehension" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,137, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).

"Systems, devices, articles, and methods for prehension" was invented by Nicolas Normand Bergeron (San Mateo, Calif.) and Thomas John Hummel (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end-effector may include a base, a plurality of underactuated fingers coupled to the base; and an adhesion gripper coupled to the base. An end-effector may include a base, an actuator, a first underactuated finger comprising a proximal link and a distal link, the proximal link including a distal end, a guide for a first tendon spaced a first distance away fr...