US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Jan. 27 for "Method and apparatus for control robot to perform somersault motion, and robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,811, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for control robot to perform somersault motion, and robot" was invented by Xinyang Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Shuai Wang (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jiafeng Xu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a robot to perform a somersault motion enables the robot, when facing an obstacle such as a hole, ditch, or ravine, to cross the obstacle by performing a somersault motion. The robot includes a wheel-leg portion and a base portion connec...