US Patent Issued to INWATEC on Nov. 3 for "Gripper head and a method of operating a gripper head" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,577, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to INWATEC APS (Odense Sv, Denmark).

"Gripper head and a method of operating a gripper head" was invented by Mads Andresen (Odense SV, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper head adapted to grip, hold and release a piece of cloth, including a first part and a second part with respective conveyor belts, an actuator, such as a hydraulic actuator, a pneumatic actuator or a motor, connected with the second part and configured for turning the second part relative to the first part to apply in a cloth nipping position a first clamping force on a piece of cloth, and a controller connected with th...