US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute on May 19 for "Inverse tendon actuated fingers for active grasping" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,849, issued on May 19, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Inverse tendon actuated fingers for active grasping" was invented by Andrew M. Beaulieu (Somerville, Mass.) and Alexander Alspach (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system for grasping an object including a set of movable robotic fingers that may be in the form of a fin gripper or other moldable robotic finger similarly formed. The robotic fingers include a mechanism that is embedded in one or both of the fingers that allows the fingers to more firmly grasp an object. Further, an actuator may move the mechanism to furth...