ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,252, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for controlling wheel-legged robot, device, and storage medium" was invented by Qinqin Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Jingchen Li (Shenzhen, China), Haitao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Shuai Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yu Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Xiong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a wheel-legged robot includes controlling, under a first constraint of a support region corresponding to an initial posture, through a first outer mechanical leg and at least one inner mechanical leg, the wheel-legge...