ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,709, issued on Dec. 16.
"Industrial robot" was invented by Hartmut Herbert Ilch (Baden-Baden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial robot with parallel kinematics includes a robot base, an effector carrier receiving an effector, a first actuating arm, a second actuating arm, and a third actuating arm, wherein each actuating arm is driven at one end and is received on the robot base and is movably connected with its other end to the effector carrier. The actuating arms are adapted to move the effector carrier translationally in three dimensions in space relative to the robot base. The first actuating arm and the second ...