US Patent Issued to Kimastle on June 30 for "Robotic gasket installation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,920, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kimastle Corp. (Chesterfield, Mich.).

"Robotic gasket installation" was invented by Kirk E. Gilewski (Algonac, Mich.), Kirk J. Gilewski Jr. (Clay Township, Mich.), Craig Gilewski (Algonac, Mich.) and Raymond Kujawa (Allenton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot end of arm tool (EOAT) and installation process for the proper orientation, mounting, and installation of gaskets such as, but not limited to, water-tight and soil-tight gaskets onto work pieces, such as molded pipes is provided. The gasket installation process may comprise multiple stations including a pipe loading station, pip...