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Ryan Knopf — 46 Patents

SRSoft Robotics: 39 patents #2 of 20Top 10%
Harvard University: 1 patents #1,740 of 3,600Top 50%
Cambridge, MA: #156 of 8,183 inventorsTop 2%
Massachusetts: #1,441 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Ryan Knopf has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Soft Robotics. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in August 2025. Ryan Knopf ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Ryan Knopf in Cambridge, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12397445 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2025-08-26
12275136 Modular robotics systems Joshua Aaron Lessing, Kevin Alcedo, Daniel Vincent Harburg 2025-04-15
12251836 Soft robotic actuators utilizing asymmetric surfaces Joshua Aaron Lessing, Noel McLellan 2025-03-18
12239078 Ripeness detection system using hue color space and peak finding Joshua Aaron Lessing 2025-03-04
12145259 Soft robotic actuator enhancements Joshua Aaron Lessing, Carl Everett Vause 2024-11-19
12053877 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2024-08-06
11826905 Soft actuator having a texturizable gripping surface Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Kevin Alcedo, Grant Sellers, Mark Chiappetta 2023-11-28
11752641 Self-contained robotic gripper system Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Grant Sellers, Kevin Alcedo 2023-09-12
11738471 Soft robotic actuator enhancements Joshua Aaron Lessing, Carl Everett Vause 2023-08-29
11731292 Soft robotic actuator attachment hub and grasper assembly, reinforced actuators, and electroadhesive actuators Joshua Aaron Lessing, Carl Everett Vause, Kevin Alcedo 2023-08-22
11660759 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2023-05-30
11648663 Soft robotic actuators utilizing asymmetric surfaces Joshua Aaron Lessing, Noel McLellan 2023-05-16
11647692 Gripper with tunable compliance for dexterous object manipulation Joshua Aaron Lessing, Jason A. Chrisos 2023-05-16
11483976 Gripper tools for object grasping and manipulation Joshua Aaron Lessing, Jason A. Chrisos 2022-11-01
11490071 Depth and vision sensors for challenging agricultural environments Joshua Aaron Lessing, Michele Pratusevich, Jason A. Chrisos, Shreyas Aditya 2022-11-01
11389955 Servo-pneumatic control systems for soft robotic actuators Joshua Aaron Lessing 2022-07-19
11247348 Soft actuators with tapered or skewed structures Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Kevin Alcedo, Grant Sellers, Mark Chiappetta 2022-02-15
11179856 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2021-11-23
11173615 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2021-11-16
11167422 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2021-11-09
11161251 Self-contained robotic gripper system Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Grant Sellers, Kevin Alcedo 2021-11-02
11154992 Soft robotic actuators for positioning, packaging, and assembling Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Sarv Parteek Singh, Mark Chiappetta 2021-10-26
11110616 Soft robotic actuator enhancements Joshua Aaron Lessing, Carl Everett Vause 2021-09-07
11077565 Soft robotic actuator attachment hub and grasper assembly, reinforced actuators, and electroadhesive actuators Joshua Aaron Lessing, Carl Everett Vause, Kevin Alcedo 2021-08-03
11077562 User-assisted robotic control systems Michael Rosenstein, Jeff Curhan, Joshua Aaron Lessing, Daniel Vincent Harburg, Mark Chiappetta 2021-08-03