US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 16 for "End of arm tools having belt-driven engagement members" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,336, issued on June 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"End of arm tools having belt-driven engagement members" was invented by Vincent Kerstholt (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for end of arm tools having belt-driven engagement members and related item manipulation devices are provided. In one embodiment, an example item manipulation device may include a housing, a suction cup assembly having a first suction cup, where the suction cup assembly is positioned at a distal end of the housing, a first engagement member having a first arm portion configured to rotate with respect to ...