US Patent Issued to Zhejiang University on Jan. 27 for "Automatic end effector tip position initialization mechanism for micromanipulation system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,815, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Automatic end effector tip position initialization mechanism for micromanipulation system" was invented by Liangjing Yang (Hangzhou, China), Tiexin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Yun Long (Hangzhou, China) and Tianle Weng (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic end effector tip position initialization mechanism for a micromanipulation system is provided. The method includes: S1, positioning a macro end effector tip, calculating a camera pose by using ArUco Tag, and realizing a three-dimensional positioning of the end effector tip by using a ...