ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,446, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ghost Robotics Corp. (Philadelphia).
"Legged robot" was invented by Gavin Kenneally (Philadelphia) and Jiren Parikh (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A legged robot having a frame with a plurality of links in mechanical communication with plurality of brackets, the frame forming a front, back, top, bottom, and sides, legs in mechanical communication with one or more of the plurality of brackets, each leg having a knee motor, an abduction motor, and a hip motor, a computer module in mechanical communication with one or more of the plurality of brackets and in electrical communicatio...