US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevada Reno on March 24 for "Robotic system for civil infrastructure inspection" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,630, issued on March 24, was assigned to Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education on behalf of the University of Nevada Reno (Reno, Nev.).

"Robotic system for civil infrastructure inspection" was invented by Hung M. La (Reno, Nev.) and Son Thanh Nguyen (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular, hybrid robotic system for inspecting a structure can include a rigid frame, a modular propulsion system associated with a flight mode of the robotic system, the propulsion system comprising a plurality of propellers, a modular locomotion system associated with a climbing and/or driving mode of the robotic system, t...