US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Aug. 25 for "Hybrid exploration and inspection robot" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,627, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Hybrid exploration and inspection robot" was invented by Parviz E. Nakravesh (Tucson, Ariz.) and Sahand Sabet (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods too of implementing a hybrid robotic system capable of reversibly transitioning producing propulsion units may be coupled to the payload platform. In a first position, the payload platform may be positioned such that the thrust-producing propulsion units generate a substantially horizontal thrust to prov...