ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,113, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VELEC SYSTEMS (Wattrelos, France).
"Gripper-bender device and modular gripper assembly" was invented by Maxence Masurel (Tourcoing, France) and Pierre Six (Sailly Lez Lannoy, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanised method for bending and loading slender products having two longitudinal ends into at least one package implementing one or more gripper-bender devices and comprising the following steps of: /a/ gripping by the gripper-bender device(s) the product(s) in a rest position on a support surface, position wherein each product has an initial length between the two longitudinal ends th...