ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,440, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).
"Gripper with bendable fingers and switching means" was invented by Martin Riedel (Augsburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper includes a main gripper body and at least two gripper fingers, at least one of which is movably mounted on the main gripper body. The gripper has a switch that can be switched between a first switch position and a second switch position, wherein the first switch position, fully releases a pulling device so that by the pulling device being pulled, the gripper finger movably mounted on the main gripper body is pulled into a cl...