ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,975, issued on July 14, was assigned to Chef Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Robotic end effector system" was invented by Kody Brown (San Francisco), Xinyi Daniel Tang (San Francisco), Weston Wahl (San Francisco), Clement Creusot (San Francisco) and Rajat Bhageria (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector system can include: an optional actuator; an optional utensil mating connector; and a utensil. The utensil can include: a set of scoops; a set of mechanical linkages; a set of ingressive elements; and/or any other suitable components. However, the end effector system can additionally or alternatively include any ...