ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,707, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to XIAMEN TUNGSTEN Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Motor with two degrees of freedom and robot" was invented by Xiaojing Xu (Xiamen, China), Fengbin Cai (Xiamen, China), Zhibin Chen (Xiamen, China), Xiaoyan Peng (Xiamen, China), Kanghua Yuan (Xiamen, China) and Qisheng Sun (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the technical field of motors, and provides a motor with two degrees of freedom and a robot. Such a motor with two degrees of freedom comprises a motor shell, an outer rotor motor and a disk-type motor, wherein the outer rotor motor comprises an outer-ro...