ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,974, issued on July 14, was assigned to DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Los Angeles).

"Low deflection tooling apparatus" was invented by Patrick Minwoo Jeon (Los Angeles), Lukas Philip Czinger (Santa Monica, Calif.), Keith Mckay (Los Angeles) and Aron Derecichei (Los Alamitos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present disclosure, systems and apparatuses of a low deflection end-of-arm tooling configured to interface with robots are described. In one aspect, an apparatus may include a shaft with dimensions that include a length greater than a width and having lengthwise distal and proximal ends, and the distal end may be config...