US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Oct. 27 for "Pneumatic soft robotic spiral gripper with fiber optic sensor" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,790, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Athens, Ga.).

"Pneumatic soft robotic spiral gripper with fiber optic sensor" was invented by Mable P. Fok (Bishop, Ga.) and Mei Yang (Athens, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to pneumatic soft robotic spiral grippers. A fiber optic sensor can enable spiral-gripper sensing of, e.g., a twining angle and target cylinder diameter. In one example, a pneumatic soft robotic spiral gripper includes an elastic spine with an embedded fiber optic sensor and a pneumatic spiral channel twining around the elastic spine. ...