ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,710, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHINANO KENSHI Co. LTD. (Ueda, Japan).
"Robot hand method for controlling robot hand" was invented by Kenta Ide (Nagano, Japan), Yukio Shinozuka (Nagano, Japan) and Takeshi Sasaki (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot hand includes a motor, claws configured to grip a workpiece in accordance with rotation of the motor, an encoder configured to detect a rotational position of the motor, and a control device configured to control a torque of the motor such that the claws grip the workpiece in accordance with the rotational position."
The patent was filed on Oct. 5, 2022, under A...