US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for obtaining observation data of an environment" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,242, issued on March 31, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for obtaining observation data of an environment" was invented by Fabien Servant (Bourgbarre, France), Olivier Bureller (Chateaugiron, France), Philippe Robert (Rennes, France) and Pierrick Jouet (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot (20) includes a base (203, 204) and a detachable probe (205). The probe (205) includes at least one sensor of a least one type. Propulsion of the probe is provided by an ejection mechanism (204, 302) in the base. When the probe is ejected by the base, the probe captures data using...