ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,706, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fitech Sp. z o.o. (Sucha Beskidzka, Poland).

"Method of inserting an electronic components in through-hole technology, THT, into a printed circuit board, PCB, by an industrial robot" was invented by Grzegorz Marcin Bartyzel (Liszki, Poland) and Marcin Rosenhof (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of inserting an electronic components in through-hole technology, THT, into a printed circuit board, PCB by an industrial robot, based on reinforcement learning, includes grabbing, by means of a tool with universal fingers mounted to the end-effector of the industrial robot, the elec...