US Patent Issued to ReconRobotics on June 3 for "Magnetic lock with throwable robot" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,922, issued on June 3, was assigned to ReconRobotics Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Magnetic lock with throwable robot" was invented by Alex J. Kossett (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Andrew Drenner (Savage, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two wheeled throwable robot comprises an elongate chassis with two ends, a motor at each end, drive wheels connected to the motors, and a tail extending from the elongate chassis. The throwable robot includes an enable/disable arrangement comprising a pair of magnets generating a magnetic field and a magnetic field sensor positioned in proximity to the pair of magnets. The sensor is activated upon the occurre...