US Patent Issued to Grain Weevil on Sept. 8 for "Robot with interchangeable drive system" (Nebraska, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,533, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Grain Weevil Corp. (La Vista, Neb.).

"Robot with interchangeable drive system" was invented by Travis Vanderheyden (Omaha, Neb.), Ian Kennedy (Chicago), Zane Zents (Omaha, Neb.), Benjamin H. Johnson (Omaha, Neb.), Chad E. Johnson (Aurora, Neb.), Cole Oswald (Aurora, Neb.) and Juan Manuel Bogado Torres (La Vista, Neb.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot comprises a memory, a processor, a body and a drive system which are coupled. The drive system comprises one of auger-based surface interface portions and continuous tread surface interface portions. The auger-based surface interface portions ...