US Patent Issued to Persimmon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Vacuum-environment robot with integrated payload gripper" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,006, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Persimmon Technologies Corp. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Vacuum-environment robot with integrated payload gripper" was invented by Martin Hosek (Salem, N.H.), Sripati Sah (Wakefield, Mass.) and Himanshu Shukla (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a drive; a movable arm connected to the drive and having a first link rotatable about the drive at a first rotary joint, a first actuator configured to cause a rotation of the first link about the first rotary joint, at least one second link connected to the first link at a second rotary joint, at least one second actuator confi...