ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,648, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mentee Robotics LTD. (Herzliya, Israel).

"Humanoid robot leg and a humanoid robot" was invented by Amos Hadas (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itai Perez (Bein Yuhushua, Israel) and Shlomi Azulay (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humanoid robot leg that may include a shank, an ankle that includes an ankle joint that is configured to perform yaw and pitch rotations, a knee joint, multiple ankle related (AR) rotational motors that are in mechanical communication, via multiple AR transmission mechanisms, with the ankle joint, and a knee related (KR) rotational motor that is in mechanical commu...