US Patent Issued to Palladyne on Sept. 22 for "Suction assist multi-functional robotic end effector" (Utah, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,387, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Palladyne Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Suction assist multi-functional robotic end effector" was invented by Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City) and Matthew Torok (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional robotic end-effector, the method comprising a support platform, a gripper assembly supported from the support platform, and a negative pressure system to be supported, at least in part, from the support platform. The gripper assembly can comprise an opposable gripper arrangement having first and second grippers, at least one of the first or second grippers being actuatable in at...