ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,488, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SHANGHAI FLEXIV ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and FLEXIV LTD. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Robotic arm and robot" was invented by Shiquan Wang (Foster City, Calif.), Hao Jiang (Mountain View, Calif.), Ran An (San Jose, Calif.) and Xuesen Li (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic arm includes multiple joints and multiple links. The links are connected successively by the joints. At least two of the joints may each comprise a sensor configured to measure force and torque information in multiple DOF of its respective joint. In certain implementations, the sensor ma...