US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on Jan. 27 for "Gripping assembly and methods of use thereof" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,820, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Gripping assembly and methods of use thereof" was invented by Andrew M. Beaulieu (Somerville, Mass.) and Alexander Alspach (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping assembly for gripping an object is provided. The gripping assembly includes a gripping member. The gripping member includes a mounting base and a plurality of fingers. The plurality of fingers include a central finger and a plurality of adjoining fingers. The central finger is slidably coupled to the mounting base such that the central finger is movable in a lat...