US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Holdings on June 23 for "Internal asset model reconstruction for inspection" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,786, issued on June 23, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Internal asset model reconstruction for inspection" was invented by Tobias Neukom (Zurich), Markus Andreas Wiesendanger (Zurich), Nitish Kumar Jha (Zurich), Moritz Benjamin Oetiker (Zurich) and Markus Humbel (Bubikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect a system for asset model reconstruction is provided. The system includes a data collection assembly including a rotator, a LIDAR sensor coupled to the rotator and arranged to acquire LIDAR point cloud data of an asset, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) arranged to collect inertial data ...