ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,629, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tennibot Inc. (Auburn, Ala.).
"Autonomous tennis ball retrieval robots" was invented by Haitham Ahmed Reda Eletrabi (Auburn, Ala.) and Xianglin Wang (Auburn, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for autonomous tennis ball retrieval robots. Example robots include a housing comprising a ball inlet, a first wheel coupled to the housing, a ball collection portion coupled to the housing and configured to receive a plurality of balls, a first arm and a second arm removably coupled to the housing, where the first arm and the second arm togethe...