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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Sampriti Bhattacharyya, Cambridge, MA (US);
Haruhiko Harry Asada, Lincoln, MA (US);
Michael S. Triantafyllou, Belmont, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63G 8/08 (2006.01); B63G 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63G 8/001 (2013.01); B63G 8/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Vehicles designed to use ground effect forces to control a positioning of the vehicle relative to a surface as well as their methods of use are described.