ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,954, issued on March 3, was assigned to BACA SYSTEMS LLC (Orion Township, Mich.).

"Multi-axis robot with adjustable end of arm tool" was invented by Whitney Moon (Corning, N.Y.), Ryan Fossett (Hazel Park, Mich.) and Rhett King (Oxford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes an articulated robot having a base near one end, a wrist flange near an opposite end, and a plurality of robot portions between the base and the wrist flange. A cutting tool is secured to the wrist flange and selectively moveable about at least one tool axis to change an angle of orientation of the cutting tool. A controller coordinates movem...