US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Wheel device and mobile robot device comprising same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,785, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wheel device and mobile robot device comprising same" was invented by Donghan Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minhee Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soonheum Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunsuk Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Cheoggyu Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel device includes: a wheel member; a tire disposed on the outside of the wheel member, the tire comprising an inner layer, an outer layer, and a plurality of hollow pipes disposed between the inner layer and the outer layer, wherein an inner circumfe...