US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 2 for "Multi-modal, reconfigurable, and adaptive gripping system and method to handle item variability" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,245, issued on June 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Multi-modal, reconfigurable, and adaptive gripping system and method to handle item variability" was invented by Connor Yako (Boston), Fan Wang (Andover, Mass.) and Jianying Shi (Tewksbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-modal, reconfigurable, and adaptive gripper system may include a suction cup assembly, a static finger assembly, and at least two reconfigurable finger assemblies that are controlled by a pressure-regulated actuation assembly. In order to grasp an item, a grasp mode, a finger configuration, and/or force(s) to apply to the item ma...