ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,820, issued on March 18, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).
"Pneumatic soft grabbing sensing device" was invented by Tao Chen (Suzhou, China), Zhiwei Dai (Suzhou, China), Minglu Zhu (Yihuai, China), Huibin Jia (Suzhou, China) and Lining Sun (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic soft grabbing sensing device includes a support; a flexible grabbing mechanism including at least two flexible claws, wherein the at least two flexible claws are arranged on the support in a circumferential direction, each flexible claw includes a telescopic air bag, an adapter mechanism and a flexible plate connected with...