ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,503, issued on May 12, was assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Robot control method, and computer-readable storage medium and wheel-legged biped robot using the same" was invented by Meng Yan (Shenzhen, China), Jiangchen Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Chunyu Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Huan Tan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control method, and a computer-readable storage medium and a wheel-legged biped robot using the same are provided. The method includes: determining a kinetic model of the wheel-legged biped robot; determining, using the kinetic model, a sliding surface of the wheel-legged bipe...