ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,475, issued on July 14.

"Radar sensor-based bio-inspired autonomous mobile robot using BLE location tracking for disaster rescue" was invented by Suma Gouri Pannala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous bio-inspired mobile robotic device (200) capable of detecting, tracking and communicating location of survivor(s) (34) trapped under earthquake/building collapse debris (30, 32). The small-size, lightweight, ruggedized autonomous legged mobile robot (200) incorporates high-frequency millimeter-wave radar sensor (10) and Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) radar sensor (12) for detecting presence and perform ranging of tra...