US Patent Issued to PIAB AKTIEBOLAG on March 4 for "Vacuum gripper device with foam layer secured by magnetic attraction" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,101, issued on March 4, was assigned to PIAB AKTIEBOLAG (Danderyd, Sweden).

"Vacuum gripper device with foam layer secured by magnetic attraction" was invented by Laurent Joulin (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foam vacuum gripper device comprising at least a vacuum gripper body and at least one foam layer arranged on a bottom surface of the vacuum gripper body, at least the foam layer is secured to the vacuum gripper body by way of a magnetic attraction between the bottom surface of the vacuum gripper body and the foam layer."

The patent was filed on May 6, 2021, under Application No. 17/313,696.

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