US Patent Issued to Morgan State University on May 12 for "Autonomous mobility system" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,826, issued on May 12, was assigned to Morgan State University (Baltimore).

"Autonomous mobility system" was invented by Mansoureh Jeihani (Baltimore), Kofi Nyarko (Millersville, Md.), Eazaz Sadeghvaziri (Fresno, Calif.), Anam Ardeshiri (Ellicott City, Md.) and Nile Walker (Columbia, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated and autonomous mobility system for disabled persons including an automated wheelchair (AV) and an Adapted Automated Vehicle (AAV) configured to work together as an integrated unit to transport a user to a pre-selected destination with little to no input from the user during the trip. The AV is also configur...