US Patent Issued to Vectis Automation on Feb. 17 for "Collaborative robot cutting system and method" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,045, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Vectis Automation LLC (Loveland, Colo.).

"Collaborative robot cutting system and method" was invented by Andrew Akey (Windsor, Colo.), Joshua Pawley (Windsor, Colo.), Douglas Rhoda (Fort Collins, Colo.), Alex Roerty (Berthoud, Colo.) and Todd Scarpella (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collaborative robot cutting system for the assembly, construction, fabrication, and/or the completion of structural components for manufactured assemblies. A method of preparing work pieces and materials for further manufacturing operations employing the intuitive graphical interactive program...