ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,607, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Precision Robotics Ltd. (London).
"Punching rig and method" was invented by Jianzhong Shang (Dartford, Great Britain), Tamas Csaba Hernadi (London) and Etienne Francois Joseph Dondez (Dijon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A punching rig comprising: a base; an arm engageable with the base and movable relative to the base along a first axis, the arm comprising a chamber that extends along a chamber axis normal to the first axis; a punch slidably receivable within the chamber such that it extends along the chamber axis, which punch comprises a first end, a second end and a stop positioned bet...