ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,170, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Supporting device and robot arm" was invented by Frank Rohe (Gersthofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting device for a cable routing device of a robot arm, wherein the cable routing device has a receiving space, in which a cable portion is mounted so as to be extendable in an extension direction, for supporting the cable routing device on the robot arm. The supporting device includes a first connection body designed to rigidly connect the first connection body to a cable routing device, a second connection body designed to rigidly connect the s...