US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 15 for "Gripping control device and gripping control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,683, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gripping control device and gripping control method" was invented by Satoko Mizutani (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Matsuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping control device according to the present disclosure includes: a detector that detects displacement in a normal direction of each of a plurality of elastic bodies each having a curved surface shape, the plurality of elastic bodies provided for each of a plurality of fingertips that is in contact with a gripped object; and a calculation section that calculates a contact surface normal of each of the fingertip...