US Patent Issued to Herkules Equipment on Sept. 1 for "Mobile robot including a lift assembly and a low-profile drive mechanism" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,289, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Herkules Equipment Corp. (Walled Lake, Mich.).

"Mobile robot including a lift assembly and a low-profile drive mechanism" was invented by Todd John Bacon (Northville, Mich.) and Eliana Virginia Podolski Bacon (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile robot includes a lift assembly, a low-profile drive mechanism, and a plurality of wheels such that the mobile robot is moveable. The lift assembly includes a base and a platform moveable between a lowered state where the platform is proximal to the base and an elevated state where the platform is distal to the base. The low-profile...