US Patent Issued to Air Industrial Robotics on July 21 for "Method and apparatus for singulating and dispensing beads" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,569, issued on July 21, was assigned to Air Industrial Robotics Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for singulating and dispensing beads" was invented by Frank Lema (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are disclosed for singulating and dispensing a bead. A bulk hopper holds and presents a plurality of beads to a singulation tube that defines a pathway from the bulk hopper to a rotating protection nest. The rotating protection nest has a pocket configured to retain a single bead. A vacuum source is configured to draw beads from the bulk hopper into the singulation tube when the pocket of the ro...