ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,127, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Robotic arm" was invented by Hessam Maleki (Burnaby, Canada), Connor Richard Shannon (Vancouver, Canada), Seymur Dadashov (Richmond, Canada), James Zhong Sheng Liu (Burnaby, Canada) and Matthew Hill (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic wrist for a robotic arm includes a hybrid differential with a first cam, a second cam, a first differential input, and a second differential input. The first cam and the second cam are disposed about first and second pivots oriented along a first rotational axis. An abduction output is...