US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 1 for "Spherical dexterous hand for object grasping and within-hand manipulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,312, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Spherical dexterous hand for object grasping and within-hand manipulation" was invented by Shenli Yuan (Mountain View, Calif.) and J. Kenneth Salisbury Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structural designs and operational methods for object grasping and within-hand manipulation of an object is provided using rolling structures. The use of rolling structures reduces the need of finger gaiting, which is the periodic relocation of fingers on the object while maintaining a grasp, during manipu...