US Patent Issued to POLLEN ROBOTICS on May 20 for "Articulation having three degrees of freedom for a robot, and corresponding control method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,068, issued on May 20, was assigned to POLLEN ROBOTICS (Bordeaux, France).

"Articulation having three degrees of freedom for a robot, and corresponding control method" was invented by Matthieu Lapeyre (Bordeaux, France), Pierre Rouanet (Bordeaux, France) and Augustin Crampette (Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articulation having three degrees of freedom for a robot, comprising a platform (2), three motors (3a,3b,3c) each connected to a ring gear (4,4a,4b,4c) via a pinion (5a,5b,5c), each ring gear (4,4a,4b,4c) being arranged inside a hollow disk (6a,6b,6c) stacked on the base, such that each disk (6,6a,6b,6c) is as on...