ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,087, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PICKOMMERCE AI ROBOTICS LTD (Meitar, Israel).
"Adhesive based gripping of objects" was invented by Yoav Golan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Amir Shapiro (Meitar, Israel), Elon Rimon (Haifa, Israel) and Noam Moshe Hasson (Matan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a robotic maneuvering system for maneuvering objects by means of an adhesive attachment. The robotic maneuvering system comprises a gripper finger connected to a gripper arm. The gripper finger is configured to grasp an object to be manipulated, by means of an adhesive contact. The gripper arm maneuvers the obj...