ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,999, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. (Brookfield, Wis.).
"Battery pack powered robotic devices" was invented by Chad E. Jones (Jackson, Wis.), Tauhira Ali (Milwaukee) and Andrew M. Lambert (Delafield, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack powered robotic device that includes a housing, a plurality of wheels connected to the housing, a battery pack receiving interface on the housing and configured to receive at least one battery pack for powering the robotic device, a wireless communications module, and a controller. The wireless communications module is configured to receive a control sig...