US Patent Issued to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation on July 15 for "Deformable wheel and robot equipped with same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,322, issued on July 15, was assigned to Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Deformable wheel and robot equipped with same" was invented by Jongwon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Youngsoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Kijung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwa Soo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformable wheel includes: a plurality of lobes; wheel spokes connected to the plurality of lobes, respectively; and hinges pivotably connecting the wheel spokes to the lobes, wherein the wheel spokes are capable of two degree-of-freedom motion, and the plurality of lobes either form a circul...