US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on July 1 for "Multi-modal mobility unmanned vehicle" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,407, issued on July 1, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Multi-modal mobility unmanned vehicle" was invented by Alireza Ramezani (Boston), Morteza Gharib (Altadena, Calif.), Reza Nemovi (Oceanside, Calif.) and Eric Sihite (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a multi-modal robot can be capable of aerial mobility and ground mobility, and can switch between configuration. The multi-modal robot can include a chassis, and a leg attached to the chassis. The leg can include a frontal hip joint. The frontal hip joint can rotate around a frontal hip axis of rotation. The fr...