US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Inspection methods for small bore pipes" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,443, issued on July 14.

"Inspection methods for small bore pipes" was invented by Dayi Zhang (Glasgow, Great Britain), Gordon Ian Dobie (Dumfries, Great Britain), Graeme Michael West (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Colin Forrester (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel video inspection method for an interior surface of a small diameter pipe may include the steps of advancing a videoscope through the pipe of known size while acquiring raw images therefrom; estimating the video camera pose for at least some of the raw images; sequentially building a pipe point cloud, a mesh, and a 3D textured model of the int...