US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Oct. 14 for "Robotic grippers" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,004, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Robotic grippers" was invented by Nikhil Chavan Dafle (Jersey City, N.J.), Alberto Rodriguez Garcia (Cambridge, Mass.), Neel Doshi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ian Hernand Taylor (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic gripper may be configured to dexterously manipulate an article. The robotic gripper may include two or more fingers containing one or more rotatable contacts each. The rotatable contact may transition between a rotation mode and a braking mode such that the contacts are free to rotate in the rotation mode and...