US Patent Issued to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems on March 4 for "Systems, devices, and methods for robotic end effectors" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,102, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Systems, devices, and methods for robotic end effectors" was invented by Connor Richard Shannon (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic end effector or end-of-arm tool may take the form of a mechanical digit (e.g., mechanical finger), or employ one or more mechanical digits (e.g., mechanical fingers), controllable in multiple degrees of freedom, e.g., pitch, yaw, curl. The mechanical digit(s) advantageously comprise a skeleton and three (3) piston/cylinders combinations, one controlling curl, and the other two controlli...