ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,112, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).
"Robot hand" was invented by Andrew James Shaw (Swindon, Great Britain) and Vincent Denis Clerc (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot gripper including: a base section; a first finger connected to the base section by a base section joint and n phalanxes; a second finger connected to the base section by a base section joint and n+m phalanxes, each phalanx of the second finger being connected to an adjacent phalanx by a phalanx joint and the first and second fingers being opposable to one other; wherein n and m are positi...