US Patent Issued to Southwest Research Institute on Nov. 4 for "Autonomous rail and tread self-driving and anchoring assembly" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,106, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Southwest Research Institute (San Antonio).

"Autonomous rail and tread self-driving and anchoring 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: "An autonomous self-driving assembly for confined regions. The assembly is configured to move within and through narrow spaces as well as larger wider spaces. Once more, the assembly may support the carrying out of load-based applications even within the wider spaces. The assembly includes bracing capacity within such wide spaces to facilitate the carrying out of such load-based applic...