ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,284, issued on July 1, was assigned to Guangdong Keystar Intelligence Robot Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China).

"Transformable robot mechanism and inspection robot" was invented by Fang Li (Foshan, China), Shaochun Jia (Foshan, China), Guangmian Fan (Foshan, China), Jianyuan Li (Foshan, China), Jiaju Xue (Foshan, China) and Jixian Wu (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments provide a transformable robot mechanism and an inspection robot. The robot mechanism includes a functional device box, balance side shells, a battery cell, and a control panel. The balance side shells are rotatably installed on two sides of the functiona...