US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Georgia Tech Research on March 17 for "High pressure burrowing everting robot with sensorized skin and for subsurface sensor deployment" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,837, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"High pressure burrowing everting robot with sensorized skin and for subsurface sensor deployment" was invented by Nicholas D. Naclerio (Portola Valley, Calif.), Elliot W. Hawkes (Goleta, Calif.) and Daniel I. Goldman (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure burrowing everting robot includes a tubular body formed of a high-pressure skin and airtight bladder arranged to permit pressure to evert the high-pressure skin and bladder together such that the high-pressure skin forms...