US Patent Issued to Exploration Robotics Technologies on Oct. 20 for "System and method for autonomous inspection for asset maintenance and management" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,278, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Exploration Robotics Technologies Inc. (Houston).

"System and method for autonomous inspection for asset maintenance and management" was invented by Oleg Mikhailov (Piedmont, Calif.), Richard Clarke (Houston), Dmitri Kossakovski (S. Pasadena, Calif.) and Yaroslav Shchekaturov (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing an autonomous inspection comprises traversing, by an autonomous sensor apparatus, a path through a site having three-dimensional objects located therein. The method comprises obtaining, by a plurality of sensors on-board the autonomous sensor apparatus, one or...