US Patent Issued to AMTOS SOLUTIONS D.O.O. on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus for active contact force control in machining and handling operations" (Croatian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,512, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to AMTOS SOLUTIONS D.O.O. (Zagreb, Croatia).

"Apparatus for active contact force control in machining and handling operations" was invented by Tomislav Staroveski (Zagreb, Croatia), Danko Brezak (Zagreb, Croatia), Miho Klaic (Dubrovnik, Croatia) and Zlatko Catlak (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for active contact force control can have an upper flange on which to mount a production tool. The apparatus can be mounted, via a lower flange, on a multi-axis machine to obtain spatial motion together with the corresponding production tool. The apparatus can comprise a housing i...