US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Holdings on July 28 for "Automatic slap impact mitigation system" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,521, issued on July 28, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Automatic slap impact mitigation system" was invented by Matthew Pankow (Skaneateles, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection tube of a borescope can include an actuable portion nearer a distal of the inspection tube than a proximal end of the tube. Actuable drive cables can extend a length of the inspection tube to transfer motion to the actuable portion. At a distal end of the inspection tube is an inspection head that can include a motion sensor configured to sense an orientation and a movement of the inspection head. At the proximal end of the...