US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University on March 4 for "Buckling beams for underwater and terrestrial autonomous vehicles" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,283, issued on March 4, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Buckling beams for underwater and terrestrial autonomous vehicles" was invented by Daniel Aukes (Gilbert, Ariz.), Mohammad Sharifzadeh (Phoenix) and Yuhao Jiang (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanical system includes a curved beam and a motor coupled to the curved beam. The curved beam is configured to buckle at two different locations along the positive and negative portions of its load/displacement curve, corresponding to opposite and equal sense bending directions. The motor is configured t...