ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,348, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Mobile robot drive system" was invented by Kevin Cederwall (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Pete Cardamone (Brentwood, Calif.), Seth Dunten (Castro Valley, Calif.), Ali Jabbari (Berkeley, Calif.) and Azharuddin Khaderi (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot can include a chassis and support wheels configured to support the chassis on a ground surface. The mobile robot can have a drive assembly that includes a drive wheel mounted to a control arm for moving the mobile robot. The control arm can pivot about a pivot axis. The pivot axis can be rearward of t...