US Patent Issued to Persimmon Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Linear robot arm with multiple end effectors" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,197, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Persimmon Technologies Corp. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Linear robot arm with multiple end effectors" was invented by Martin Hosek (Lowell, Mass.), Dennis Poole (Derry, N.H.) and Christopher Hofmeister (Hampstead, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate transport apparatus including a lower linearly driven effector structure with spaced paddles, and an upper linearly driven end effector structure with spaced paddles and no rotating joints above a paddle of the lower end effector structure. A drive subsystem is configured to linearly drive the lower end effector structure and to linearly drive...