US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Aug. 25 for "Wheel and leg transformable robot with suspension and autonomous navigation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,240, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Wheel and leg transformable robot with suspension and autonomous navigation" was invented by Kiju Lee (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to a robot. The robot includes a body and a wheel assembly coupled to the body. The wheel assembly includes a central hub and a central gear coupled to the central hub. A plurality of legs are coupled to the central hub. The plurality of legs are operatively coupled to the central gear such that the central gear drives the plurality of legs between a...