ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,136, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Robot hand" was invented by Tatsuhiro Wakayama (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Uchida (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand includes a first proximal end finger having a first protrusion at a distal end of the first proximal end finger, a first distal end finger that is connected to the first proximal end finger in a relatively rotatable manner and has a first cutout allowable the first protrusion to pass, a second proximal end finger having a second protrusion at a distal end of the second proximal end finger, a...