US Patent Issued to Persimmon Technologies on June 24 for "Modular material handling robot platform" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,043, issued on June 24, was assigned to Persimmon Technologies Corp. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Modular material handling robot platform" was invented by Martin Hosek (Lowell, Mass.) and Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a first base plate, where the first base plate is configured to have at least one linear drive component and/or at least one power coupling component connected to a top side of the first base plate, where the first base plate is configured to be located inside a vacuum chamber; and a plurality of rails or transport guides on the top side of the first base plate. An end of t...