ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,424, issued on July 22, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).
"Submarine stratum space cable laying robot" was invented by Jiawang Chen (Hangzhou, China), Peihao Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Xingshuang Lin (Hangzhou, China), Hai Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Yongqiang Ge (Hangzhou, China), Zhenwei Tian (Hangzhou, China) and Tao Liang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main body structure of a submarine stratum space cable laying robot includes one telescopic electric linear actuator unit including two dustproof sleeves with one sleeved on the other, and four single supporting arm units for forward motion and supp...