ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,895, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE HUMAN TOUCH ROBOTICS OY (Lappeenranta, Finland).
"Adaptive gripper finger, gripper device and method of using adaptive gripper device" was invented by Andrija Milojevic (Lappeenranta, Finland), Sebastian Linss (Ilmenau, Germany) and Heikki Handroos (Lappeenranta, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripper finger (1) for a gripper device having a monolithic elastic structure comprising an inside arm (2) having a first folding point (8) forming an angle C; an outside arm (3) having a second folding point (9), wherein the inside arm or the outside arm comprises a gripping surface for gri...