US Patent Issued to Cardinal Gibbons High School on Sept. 1 for "Swerve-drive robot" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,277, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cardinal Gibbons High School (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Swerve-drive robot" was invented by Kevin Nicolas Haller (Chapel Hill, N.C.), William Michael Meyers (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Joseph Michael Biersack (Morrisville, N.C.), Julia Mary Biersack (Morrisville, N.C.), Ian Setia (Raleigh, N.C.), Rachael Setia (Raleigh, N.C.), Andrew John Andersen (Wake Forest, N.C.), Ethan Christopher Emerton (Cary, N.C.), Thomas Leland Hughes (Raleigh, N.C.), William Charles Holt (Raleigh, N.C.) and Wyatt John Nicholson (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot apparatus with a capable and highly maneuverable drive ...