ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,457, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GluxKind Technologies Inc. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Carriage with guided autonomous locomotion" was invented by Anne Hunger (Vancouver, Canada), Zi Wen Huang (Vancouver, Canada), Check Hay Janson Chan (Vancouver, Canada) and Anderson Jia Lin Kwan (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to systems and methods for guided autonomous locomotion of a carriage, including a compartment configured to ensconce a child, a frame configured to support the compartment, a drive motor, a drivetrain operatively coupled to the drive motor; a drive wheel rotatably affixed to the frame, configu...