ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,793, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).
"Parallel type gripper" was invented by Keehoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dukchan Yoon (Ansan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel-type gripper according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pair of jaws that are opposite to each other; and a parallel-type driving module in which the pair of jaws are movably connected in a horizontal direction such that they approach or move away from each other, and moving the pair of jaws in the horizontal direction so that the pair of jaws ...