ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,170, issued on April 14, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).
"Apparatus for spring centered caster wheel" was invented by Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous delivery vehicle having one or more caster wheels that may be held off the ground for a portion of the time that the autonomous delivery vehicle travels. Each caster wheel is mounted in a pivot with a centering mechanism to hold the caster wheels in a design orientation. The caster wheel in the design orientation maximizes the view of forward-looking sensors on the autonomous delivery vehicle. The centering mecha...