US Patent Issued to J. Schmalz on Sept. 1 for "Method for handling a gripping object by means of a vacuum handling device, and vacuum handling device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,311, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to J. Schmalz GmbH (Glatten, Germany).

"Method for handling a gripping object by means of a vacuum handling device, and vacuum handling device" was invented by Bernd Heinzmann (LoBburg, Germany), Matthias Frey (Sulz-Durrenmettstetten, Germany), Martin Stehle (Haigerloch, Germany) and Hermann Reinisch (Dornhan, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling a gripping object by a vacuum handling device, comprising a vacuum gripper with a plurality of individually activatable suction points and a vacuum generating device, comprising providing a reference negative pressure value pUref, ...