US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Reconfigurable underwater vehicle capable of far-distance cruising and underwater interactive operation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,801, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Reconfigurable underwater vehicle capable of far-distance cruising and underwater interactive operation" was invented by Jinming Wu (Jiangsu, China), Xijie Ni (Jiangsu, China) and Zhonghua Ni (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a reconfigurable underwater vehicle capable of far-distance cruising and underwater interactive operation, which includes an operation compartment, two buoyancy compartments connected with the operation compartment by connection rods, and a folding mechanism located within the buoyancy compa...