US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 1 for "End effector bump detector" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,880, issued on July 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"End effector bump detector" was invented by Adolphus Edward McClanahan (Dallas), Anthony Wayne Myers (Plano, Texas), Ronald Tracy White (Plano, Texas) and John Keith Bentley (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is described for detecting abnormal contacts and misalignment of end effector of a robot arm during robotic arm operation. A contact shock transients sensing unit detects signals on the robot arm and generates alarms, identifies the location of the contact shock transients in the robot arm operation, and controls robot arm oper...