US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Snake-arm robot capable of converting to a drone" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,680, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Snake-arm robot capable of converting to a drone" was invented by Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Venkata Ratnam Alubelli (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible robot including a plurality of modules connected one to another by one of a plurality of joints, wherein the plurality of modules has a first end and a second end that is adapted to allow for removable attachment to the first end. The convertible robot also includes a coupling that reversibly con...