ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,951, issued on March 31, was assigned to MUJIN Inc. (Tokyo).

"Robotic systems with gripping mechanisms, and related systems and methods" was invented by Lei Lei (Guangzhou, China), Yixuan Zhang (Guangzhou, China), Xutao Ye (Guangzhou, China), Yi Xu (Guangzhou, China), Brandon Coats (Jeffersonville, Ind.), Rosen Nikolaev Diankov (Tokyo), Zhili Lai (Guangzhou, China) and Guohao Huang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic systems with variable gripping mechanisms, and related systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the robotic system includes a robotic arm and an object-gripping assembly couple...