US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Feb. 17 for "Robotic systems and methods for tank seal inspection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,052, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Robotic systems and methods for tank seal inspection" was invented by Mitchell Pryor (Austin, Texas), Connor D. Crawford (Austin, Texas), Robert Blake Anderson (Austin, Texas) and Keith Fritz (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic systems and methods for tank seal inspection. A tank inspection robot includes a housing containing a drive assembly, and wheels disposed outside of the housing and operably coupled to the drive assembly. The tank inspection robot also includes at least one sensor coupled to, or disposed...