US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Capgemini Engineering Deutschland on Feb. 10 for "Unmanned ground-based hygiene maintenance vehicle and method for improving hygiene conditions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,470, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Capgemini Engineering Deutschland S.A.S. & Co. KG (Munich).

"Unmanned ground-based hygiene maintenance vehicle and method for improving hygiene conditions" was invented by Christian Le Polotec (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Stopp (Heidgraben, Germany) and Matthias Kossow (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned ground-based hygiene maintenance vehicle, UGV, includes a housing with a base plate, top plate and housing side wall substantially perpendicular to the base plate. Arranged in the housing is at least one wheel drive coupled to at least ...