US Patent Issued to Southwest Research Institute on May 13 for "Elevated window passable autonomous self-driving assembly" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,901, issued on May 13, was assigned to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio).

"Elevated window passable autonomous self-driving assembly" was invented by Cody Bressler (San Antonio) and Meera M. Towler (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-driving assembly capable of traversing an elevated window. The elevated narrow space window may be present within a confined area, for example, at a wall separating different wide space rooms. The assembly is configured to carry out unique techniques for gaining access to the window from a floor level location. Further, in addition to gaining access unique stabilizing features may...