US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Sept. 29 for "Remotely operated vehicle for environmental research" (Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, Colorado, Montana, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,991, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Remotely operated vehicle for environmental research" was invented by Geoffrey L. Bland (Parksley, Va.), Ted Miles (Onley, Va.), Paul Henry (Wayne, Mich.), James Moon-Dupree (Wayne, Mich.), Kay Rufty (Boulder, Colo.), Suzi Taylor (Bozeman, Mont.), Doug Levin (Chestertown, Md.), Jonathan Gaines (Tampa, Fla.) and David Bydlowski (Wayne, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remotely controlled vehicle includes a vehicle propulsion system having a receiver for receiving speed and direction commands, speed contro...