US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on Dec. 9 for "Driving apparatus having transformable wheel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,954, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Driving apparatus having transformable wheel" was invented by Hyouk Ryeol Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ye Chan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heesik Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Tae Yu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving apparatus having transformable wheels including: a drive unit generating forward/reverse torque; a wheel assembly traveling on the ground by receiving torque from the drive unit, the wheel assembly being variable in a diameter; a power transmission transmitting the ...