US Patent Issued to MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS on April 14 for "Reducing resistance to movement of devices that include casters" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,062, issued on April 14, was assigned to MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/S (Odense, Denmark).

"Reducing resistance to movement of devices that include casters" was invented by Kristian Thomasberg (Ringe, Denmark), Troels Bo Jorgensen (Odense, Denmark) and Jeppe Aakaer Iversen (Odense, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Planning driving sequences of mobile robots and other devices. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an instruction for movement of a device along a supporting surface. The device includes at least one drive wheel and at least one caster that is rotatable about a generally vertical axis. During motion, the caster ...