US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for controlling wheel-legged robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,784, issued on June 23, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling wheel-legged robot" was invented by Shuai Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jingfan Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for controlling a wheel-legged robot are provided. The method includes: controlling a first wheel leg to move from a first step onto a second step, controlling a second wheel leg and an auxiliary wheel leg to be stabilized on the first step; controlling the second wheel leg to move from the first step onto the second step, controlling the first whee...