US Patent Issued to CAMOZZI AUTOMATION on Sept. 29 for "Method for controlling a gripper" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,663, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CAMOZZI AUTOMATION S.P.A. (Brescia, Italy).

"Method for controlling a gripper" was invented by Rocco Antonio Romeo (Genoa, Italy), Luca Fiorio (Genoa, Italy) and Marco Rossi (Brescia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling grasping of an object by a gripper provides for computing a reference position of a grasped object with respect to a reference system integral with the gripper, and monitoring a position of the grasped object. If a displacement of the grasped object with respect to the reference position is detected, the method provides for commanding the gripper to i...