ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,705, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to UNIVERSITE LAVAL (Quebec, Canada).
"Parallel mechanism with kinematically redundant actuation" was invented by Clement Gosselin (Sillery, Canada), Kefei Wen (Quebec, Canada), David Harton (Quebec, Canada) and Thierry Laliberte (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial parallel mechanism comprises a platform. Three or more legs configured for extending from a base or ground to the platform, each leg has a distal link, one or more distal joint providing one rotational degree of freedom (DOF) about a distal rotational axis, the distal joint connecting a distal end of the distal link...