US Patent Issued to SONY on June 24 for "Robot device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,250, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Robot device" was invented by Hidenori Ishibashi (Tokyo), Tomoo Mizukami (Tokyo), Takuma Araki (Tokyo), Masato Muraki (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyuki Arai (Tokyo), Goushi Koike (Tokyo), Takayuki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Kouta Katsumura (Aichi, Japan), Yohei Watanabe (Aichi, Japan), Muneyuki Horiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Maeda (Aichi, Japan), Satoshi Muto (Chiba, Japan) and Hideo Miyano (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a robot device including: a head portion coupled to a trunk; four leg portions on a front left, a front right, a rear left, and...