ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,981, issued on June 30, was assigned to TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG. (Pasching, Austria).
"Gripping device having movable slides" was invented by Gerhard Angerer (Altenberg, Austria), Michael Schernhammer (Leonding, Austria), Klemens Freudenthaler (Linz, Austria), Florian Maier (Leonding, Austria), Nenad Kovjenic (Linz, Austria), Florian Hausmann (Traun, Austria) and Verena Steininger (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gripping device includes a supporting platform with a connection interface for coupling to a manipulator and at least two adjustment-slide guides. The gripping device includes a supply device fo...