US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on April 7 for "Device and method for gripping an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,678, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Device and method for gripping an object" was invented by Christian Auer (Pilsting, Germany), Claus-Peter Baumann (Leiblfing, Germany), Alois Dobler (Holzheim, Germany), Martin Endres (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Germany), Reinhold Hackl (Regenstauf, Germany), Franz Korber (Mallersdorf, Germany), Martin Kuhn (Regenstauf, Germany), Maximilian Rainer (Offenberg, Germany), Markus Sieber (Bernhardswald, Germany), Franz Stockner (Aholming, Germany) and Stefan Weinmann (Reisbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for gripping an object includes a base...