ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,807, issued on June 23, was assigned to WISSON TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Flexible mechanical arm and robot" was invented by Zhongfeng Qian (Shenzhen, China), Ying Wei (Shenzhen, China), Xiulin Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Beineng Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a flexible mechanical arm and a robot. The flexible mechanical arm includes an arm joint, a flexible rotary module (2) and an end execution mechanism (3) which are connected with each other. The flexible rotary module (2) is driven by fluid, and includes a first end plate (23), a powered pusher plate (222)...