US Patent Issued to Persimmon Technology on July 8 for "Vacuum-environment robot with distributed actuators" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,821, issued on July 8, was assigned to Persimmon Technology Corp. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Vacuum-environment robot with distributed actuators" was invented by Martin Hosek (Salem, N.H.), Tuan Ha (Randolph, Mass.), Dennis Poole (East Derry, 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, the movable arm comprising a first link connected to the drive at a shoulder, a second link connected to the first link at an elbow, a third link connected to the second link at a wrist, and a fourth link connected to the second lin...