US Patent Issued to FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES on Aug. 5 for "Apparatus and method for a free-swimming soft underwater robot using adaptive three-axis depth control to monitor marine environments" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,943, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Apparatus and method for a free-swimming soft underwater robot using adaptive three-axis depth control to monitor marine environments" was invented by Erik Engeberg (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underwater robot apparatus that is capable of omnidirectional lateral movement using Bluetooth, depth, temperature, and light sensors for monitoring the marine environment. The apparatus is an adaptive, three-axis control soft robotic apparatus embedded with sensors and can swim in three dimensions to record aquatic l...