ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,148, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and TE Connectivity Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Vacuum adsorption system" was invented by Zongjie (Jason) Tao (Shanghai), Dandan (Emily) Zhang (Shanghai) and Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum adsorption system includes a cylinder including a cylinder block, a piston, and a piston rod mounted in the cylinder block, and a vacuum pressure control device controlling a vacuum pressure in an inner cavity of the cylinder block. The piston rod has a vacuum suction hole communicating with the i...