ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,780, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intelligrated Headquarters LLC (Mason, Ohio).
"Anti-sway control for a robotic arm with adaptive grasping" was invented by Jagtar Singh (Pittsburgh), Ramdas M. Pai (Cary, N.C.) and Abhijit Makhal (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for an improved anti-sway control system and adjustable end effector for a robotic arm are provided. An example method includes determining at least one of a size, shape, or orientation of a package to be picked up by an end effector of a robotic arm, adjusting a position of a suction cup on the end eff...