US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY), KYONGGI UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Jan. 13 for "Transformable wheel module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,018, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea) and KYONGGI UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY & ACADEMIA COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Transformable wheel module" was invented by Taewon Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Yun Hyuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Sijun Ryu (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwa Soo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformable wheel module is disclosed. The transformable wheel module comprises: a plurality of lobes; and a mode switching unit for switching modes between a first traveling mode in which the lobe...