ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,038, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Beihang University (Beijing).

"Steering wheel structure for an omnidirectional mobile robot chassis" was invented by Juan Chen (Beijing), Jingkun Wei (Beijing), Min Yang (Beijing), Qingzhen Zhang (Beijing), Langfu Cui (Beijing), Changlin Wu (Beijing) and Shicheng Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel structure for an omnidirectional mobile robot chassis is provided. The steering wheel structure can realize two degrees of freedom: the rudder rotation of the steering wheel rotation and the full free movement realized in the horizontal plane, it has the characteristics of ...