ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,749, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cokebusters Ltd (Chester, Great Britain).
"Pig for inspecting a tubular object" was invented by Jonathan Phipps (Parkgate, Great Britain), Joseph Walsh (Conwy, Great Britain), Hugh Lewis (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Nicholas Bettley (Northwich, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an untethered, single-bodied pig for inspecting a tubular object. The pig comprises: a plurality of transducer casings, each transducer casing including an electrical terminal; a plurality of transducers for detecting a condition of the tubular object, each transducer mounted on or in a r...