US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 15 for "Apparatus and method for control of heavy object tumbling" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,126, issued on July 15, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for control of heavy object tumbling" was invented by Haruhiko Harry Asada (Lincoln, Mass.) and Cormac O'Neill (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Autonomous systems for control of heavy object tumbling and related methods are generally described. In some embodiments, the autonomous system may include one or more tethers connected to a heavy object, each tether position and location controlled by one or more actuators. The control system may include one or more processors in communication with the actua...