ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,365, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Emitter array for a lunar rover" was invented by Satendra S. Guru (Owosso, Mich.), Felipe Cuellar-Ferreira (Madison Heights, Mich.), Babak Makkinejad (Troy, Mich.), Maria Rossana Ruiz (Detroit) and Douglas James Spry (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lunar rover includes a lunar rover body, at least one wheel coupled with the lunar rover body, a drive module coupled with the at least one wheel, the drive module configured to drive rotation of the at least one wheel over a surface, an extension arm coupled to the lunar rover body,...