ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,034, issued on April 14, was assigned to FerRobotics Compliant Robot Technology GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Compensation of positional tolerances in the robot-assisted surface machining" was invented by Ronald Naderer (Linz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for robot-assisted machining of surfaces is described below. According to an example, the device has a retainer with a base plate designed for mounting on a manipulator and has an assembly suspended on the retainer, the assembly comprising a machine tool. The retainer has a tilt mechanism which couples the assembly to the retainer in such a way that the assembly can be ...