ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,895, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ROEQ ApS (Vissenbjerg, Denmark).

"Mobile robot transmission arrangement and method" was invented by Michael Hansen (Morud, Denmark), Carsten Sorensen (Herlev, Denmark) and Benni S. Lund (Aarup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot transmission arrangement is provided herein. The mobile robot transmission arrangement comprises a movable actuator assembly and a transmission. The transmission element is movably connected to the actuator assembly such that the transmission element is guided in a vertical plane (z) by moving the actuator assembly in a horizontal plane (xy). The actuat...