US Patent Issued to TRUMPF Maschinen Austria on Nov. 4 for "Vacuum gripping element and vacuum gripping device" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,757, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG. (Pasching, Austria).

"Vacuum gripping element and vacuum gripping device" was invented by Gerhard Angerer (Altenberg, Austria), Klemens Freudenthaler (Linz, Austria), Florian Hausmann (Traun, Austria), Matthias Hoerl (Linz, Austria), Nenad Kovjenic (Linz, Austria), Florian Maier (Leonding, Austria), Michael Schernhammer (Leonding, Austria), Verena Steininger (Linz, Austria) and Helmut Theis (Pfarrkirchen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum gripping element and device hold a component to be transported when subjected to a vacuum. The device incl...