ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,434, issued on July 28, was assigned to FRAMATOME GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method for automatically mapping the radiation in a portion of a building and a robot vehicle" was invented by Sebastian Kohn (Nuremberg, Germany), Oliver Sommer (Erlangen, Germany), Felix Jan Rosel (Erlangen, Germany), Ansgar Kleideiter (Igensdorf, Germany), Naeel Muhamad Ali (Nuremberg, Germany) and Frank Querfurth (Tuchenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for automatically mapping the radiation in a portion of a building (7) using a robot vehicle (1). The portion of the building includes a plurality of building surfaces (9, 10). The ...