US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Oct. 20 for "System and method for vision-based control of a reconfigurable soft robotic gripper" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,706, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"System and method for vision-based control of a reconfigurable soft robotic gripper" was invented by Nijil George (Bangalore, India), Rolif Lima (Bangalore, India) and Vighnesh Vatsal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a vision based control of a reconfigurable soft robotic gripper. Conventional methods lack an intelligent control method which automatically adapts the configuration of the gripper based on the target object. The present disclosure includes a robotic gripper with a rigid palm and three ...