US Patent Issued to TWILL Technology on Sept. 30 for "Two-wheel in-line robots" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,871, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TWILL Technology Inc. (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Two-wheel in-line robots" was invented by Christopher Andrew Tacklind (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Cameron Tacklind (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for exploiting modern controls, sensors and actuators to realize a novel family of in-line two-wheeled vehicles (Twills) as robots. Each robot has a front-wheel with a substantially horizontal axis of rotation and a substantially vertical steering axis. The front-wheel with its substantially vertical steering axis has a steering-angle that can be sensed by one...