ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,980, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangdong, China).

"Wheel-wing dual-drive high-mobility climbing robot" was invented by Haifei Zhu (Guangdong, China), Jingyi Mo (Guangdong, China), Lide Dun (Guangdong, China) and Yongzhong Bu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of climbing robots, and more specifically, to a wheel-wing dual-drive high-mobility climbing robot, including a base, a first drive portion, a second drive portion, an inertial measurement unit, a Hall sensor, a depth camera, and a control module. The control module is c...