ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,721, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Handling/compensating device comprising a serial spring arrangement and optional different spring stiffnesses" was invented by Andreas Rueb (Tamm, Germany), Efim Kuhn (Grettstadt, Germany), Michael Danzberger (Zeilitzheim, Germany), Peter Schlegel (Obernzenn, Germany) and Sebastian Siedler (Escherndorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compensating device includes a sleeve-shaped compensating device housing which includes an end portion which faces a manipulator and has a manipulator attachment point and, on an opposite end portion, an end effector...