ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,931, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).
"Quadrupedal walking robot" was invented by Masayuki Kamon (Kobe, Japan), Tatsuhiko Kato (Kobe, Japan) and So Yukizaki (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quadrupedal walking robot includes: a main body; four leg portions coupled to the main body and configured to perform a bending operation, each of the four leg portions including two or more joints; a plurality of joint actuators configured to drive a plurality of the joints; a traveling device configured to protrude from the main body in a down direction of the main body and configured to oper...