ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,923, issued on May 6, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan, China).

"Biped robot and multi-configuration robot capable of being spliced autonomously, and control method of multi-configuration robot" was invented by Teng Chen (Jinan, China), Xuewen Rong (Jinan, China), Yibin Li (Jinan, China), Guoteng Zhang (Jinan, China), Guanglin Lu (Jinan, China) and Jian Bi (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a biped robot and multi-configuration robot capable of being spliced autonomously, and a control method of the multi-configuration robot. The biped robot comprises a torso, arms, legs, a tolerance docking sleeve, a...