ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,433, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Robot hand" was invented by Yuki Abe (Yokohama, Japan), Sungchul Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Takeshi Yamagishi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand is provided. The robot hand includes a first and second drive gears rotated by first actuator and second actuators; a first interlocked gear interlocked with the second drive gear to rotate in opposite directions; a second interlocked gear interlocked with the first drive gear to rotate in opposite directions; a first inner link engaged with rotation of the first d...