ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,437, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"Apparatus, system and method for a variable swath end effector" was invented by Jeroen Bosboom (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Gunnar Haugen (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Bethany Weber (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Richard Munro (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Michael Mckenney (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Kwok Kuen Yu (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Babak Naderi (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system and method for providing a variable swath end effector. The variable swath end effector may include: two arms, each for retaining a portion of a retained element; two pairs of bearing rails...