US Patent Issued to Schmalz Flexible Gripping on April 15 for "Modular robotics systems" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,136, issued on April 15, was assigned to Schmalz Flexible Gripping Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Modular robotics systems" was invented by Joshua Aaron Lessing (Cambridge, Mass.), Kevin Alcedo (Coral Springs, Fla.), Ryan Richard Knopf (Melrose, Mass.) and Daniel Vincent Harburg (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments provide modular robotic systems that allow one or more operation parameters of a robotic actuator, or group of actuators, to be dynamically configured or reconfigured. The operation parameters may be, for example, the X, Y, and/or Z position of the actuator or group of actuators with respect to other actu...