Abstract
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inve ntors Amirsadri, Ashkan (Melbourne, AU); Cochrane, Jason (Melbourne, AU); Swart, Andre D. (AI Ain, AE); Zielinski, Benjamin S. (Melbourne, AU), filed on March 1 3, 2023, was made available online on September 19, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Nut plates may be utilized, within a structure, to secure two components of the structure to one another. Nut plates historically have been m anually installed while held in place during an assembly process in which the tw o components are secured to one another. While effective, this process is labor- intensive. The overall shape of the nut plates makes it difficult to reliably an d reproducibly position the nut plates at a desired location during the assembly process. Thus, there exists a need for nut plate grippers, for end effectors th at include the nut plate grippers, for robots that include the end effectors, fo r installation systems that include the robots, and/or for related methods."
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