US Patent Issued to AI on June 17 for "Integrated bumper" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,711, issued on June 17, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Integrated bumper" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Alexander Powers (Dublin, Calif.) and Shahin Fathi Djalali (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a bumper apparatus of a robot, including: a bumper elastically coupled with a chassis of the robot; at least one sensor configured to sense object impacts with the bumper; and at least one elastic element coupled to or interfacing with the chassis and coupled to or interfacing with the bumper; wherein: the at least one elastic element facilitates movement of the bumper relative to...