ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,931, issued on May 13.

"Bionic cuttlefish-typed underwater detection robot" was invented by Baoqi Li (Shijiazhuang, China), Yuzhu Jiang (Shijiazhuang, China), Xianshun Guo (Shijiazhuang, China), Fei Han (Shijiazhuang, China), Haiqing Zheng (Shijiazhuang, China), Tonghao Zhang (Shijiazhuang, China), Fu Shi (Shijiazhuang, China), Pengyu Zhu (Shijiazhuang, China), Jiahui Tang (Shijiazhuang, China) and Angyue Lv (Shijiazhuang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a bionic cuttlefish-typed underwater detection robot, including a bionic "cuttlefish"-typed body structure, a piezoelectric energy capture devic...