US Patent Issued to Gecko Robotics on March 31 for "System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface" (Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,239, issued on March 31, was assigned to Gecko Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface" was invented by Mark Loosararian (Glenshaw, Pa.), Joshua Moore (Pittsburgh), Yizhu Gu (Pittsburgh), Kevin Low (Pittsburgh), Edward Bryner (Pittsburgh), Logan MacKenzie (Penn Hills, Pa.), Ian Miller (Aspinwall, Pa.), Alvin Chou (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Todd Joslin (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an inspection robot comprising a main body and at least one payload; a plurality of arms, where each of the plurality of arms is pivotally mounted to the at least one payload to rotate...