US Patent Issued to Boston Dynamics on Sept. 16 for "Integrated mobile manipulator robot with accessory interfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,285, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Boston Dynamics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Integrated mobile manipulator robot with accessory interfaces" was invented by Matthew Meduna (Waltham, Mass.), Michael Murphy (Carlisle, Mass.), Guillermo Diaz-Lankenau (Santa Clara, Mass.), Chris Hamilton (Arlington, Mass.) and John Aaron Saunders (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot comprises a mobile base, a robotic arm operatively coupled to the mobile base, and at least one interface configured to enable selective coupling to at least one accessory. The at least one interface comprises an electrical interface configured to tran...