US Patent Issued to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Aug. 5 for "Salvage metal cutting robot" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,565, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).

"Salvage metal cutting robot" was invented by Berk Calli (Worcester, Mass.), James Akl (Worcester, Mass.) and Roger Morton (Warrington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic cutting device includes a cutting tool responsive to a mobile actuator adapted to apply a cutting force in a 3-dimensional (3D) space, and scanning logic configured to identify a cutting path denoted on an article for cutting. Using the cutting path, a mobile actuator is responsive to positioning logic for disposing the cutting tool along the cutting path fo...