US Patent Issued to The Boeing on May 19 for "Rapid change mechanism for complex end effectors" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,827, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Rapid change mechanism for complex end effectors" was invented by Christopher J. Wheaton (Mukilteo, Wash.), Clayton Munk (Rockland, Idaho), Brian R. Conlan (Seattle), Gavin Lloyd Smith (Edmonds, Wash.), Dan D. Day (Seattle) and Johannes Meyling (Clinton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology identifies that an end effector is provisioned to a robot. The technology accesses identification data of the end effector. The identification data is specific to the end effector. The identification data includes one or more of at least one setting associated with ...