US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 22 for "Multisegmented robots and networks of multisegmented robots" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,368, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Multisegmented robots and networks of multisegmented robots" was invented by Aishwarya Pantula (Baltimore), Siming Deng (Baltimore), Noah J. Cowan (Baltimore), Thao D. Nguyen (Baltimore), Jiayu Liu (Baltimore), Bibekananda Datta (Baltimore) and David H. Gracias (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multisegmented robot includes a first robot segment comprising a first layer of active material at least one of integral with, attached to or formed on a first layer of passive material; a second robot segment spaced apart from the first robot segmen...