ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,363, issued on July 7, was assigned to Beijing JJC Technology Co. Ltd (Beijing).

"Pipe clamping mechanism and robot for oil and gas drilling" was invented by Xuejun Li (Beijing), Hailong Huang (Beijing), Feng Yan (Beijing), Wei Chen (Beijing), Wenqiang Fu (Beijing) and Haixu Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provided is a pipe clamping mechanism for oil and gas drilling and a robot using same. The pipe clamping mechanism includes a housing, a baffle, a clamping assembly, a transmission assembly, a driving assembly, and an opening and closing assembly, where the housing is provided with a pipe clamping channel; the baffle ...