US Patent Issued to GE Infrastructure Technology on Nov. 18 for "System and method including sensor array for characterization of conduits" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,008, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"System and method including sensor array for characterization of conduits" was invented by Yew Teck Tan (Schenectady, N.Y.), Deepak Trivedi (Halfmoon, N.Y.), Steven Robert Gray (San Mateo, Calif.), Pei-Hsin Kuo (Alplaus, N.Y.) and Alexander Kyle Duncan (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a navigation apparatus and controller. The navigation apparatus includes a body assembly that includes a plurality of pneumatic or artificial muscles that are configured to interact with a sidewall of the conduit and move the bo...