US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Feb. 17 for "Method and system for multirobot collaborative mobile manipulation" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,011, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Method and system for multirobot collaborative mobile manipulation" was invented by Matthew Lawrence Elwin (Chicago), Billie Jane Strong (Evanston, Ill.), Kevin M. Lynch (Evanston, Ill.) and Randy A. Freeman (Mount Prospect, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system includes a plurality of mobile manipulator robots, where each mobile manipulator robot includes a mobile robot base, a robot manipulator mounted to the mobile robot base, and one or more computers in communication with the mobile robot base and the robot manipulator. The robot mani...