ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,550, issued on June 9, was assigned to SHENZHEN QYSEA TECH Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Full-posture underwater drone device and layout method" was invented by Junping Tang (Shenzhen, China), Chong Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhuoru Zhong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a full-posture underwater drone device, including: a shell, and six propellers installed on the shell, the six propellers are independently controlled, four of the propellers are respectively located in four spaces formed by a first vertical central plane and a second vertical central plane, a propelling direction is between a horizontal dir...