US Patent Issued to The Curators of the University of Missouri on May 13 for "Unmanned vehicle having flight configuration and surface traverse configuration" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,994, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Curators of the University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.).

"Unmanned vehicle having flight configuration and surface traverse configuration" was invented by Genda Chen (Rolla, Mo.), Alec Reven (Newburg, Mo.), Bo Shang (Rolla, Mo.), Zhenhua Shi (Rolla, Mo.), Liujun Li (Rolla, Mo.) and Boyang Li (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned vehicle includes a body, at least one power source coupled to the body, a flight propulsion system coupled to the at least one power source and configured to propel the unmanned vehicle through air, and a surface propulsion system coupled to t...