ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,808, issued on June 23, was assigned to ANYBOTICS AG (Zurich).

"Robot torso with a thermal management" was invented by Alessandro Schiavone Scafato (Schwerzenbach, Switzerland), David Sekanina (Zurich), Simon Mark Holt (Ermenswil, Switzerland), Taihei Ueno (Zurich), Severin Aregger (Zurich) and Marco Pagnamenta (Schwerzenbach, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot torso 100, in particular for a legged robot, comprising a housing wall 1 with an inner surface and an outer surface, and at least one unit integrated into the housing wall 1. The at least one unit is selected from the list consisting of a cooling unit 200 for c...