US Patent Issued to B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Hybrid flying driving robot with a clutch mechanism for energy efficiency" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,796, issued on May 12, was assigned to B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

"Hybrid flying driving robot with a clutch mechanism for energy efficiency" was invented by David Zarrouk (Haifa, Israel) and Eran Gefen (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a hybrid flying and driving robot comprising a plurality of wheels; a plurality of propellers; a plurality of motors, each of which is configured to drive the rotation of a respective wheel of said plurality of wheels; wherein each respective motor of said plurality of motors is connected t...