US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Soft growing robot having folding type growing unit" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,544, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Soft growing robot having folding type growing unit" was invented by Jee-Hwan Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ji-Hun Kim (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A growth-type soft robot includes a housing including an external body including an internal accommodation space and one side open and a fixing portion formed on a periphery of an open region of the external body, a growth unit including an outer periphery having one end connected to the fixing portion, an inner periphery spaced apart from a...