ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,067, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HOHAI UNIVERSITY (China) and CHINA YANGTZE POWER Co. LTD. (China).
"Crawling and adhesion device for underwater inspection robots used on dams" was invented by Lei Zhang (Nanjing, China), Yuhang Zhu (Nanjing, China), Tao Zeng (Nanjing, China), Junjie Li (Nanjing, China) and Yanjie Wang (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is crawling device for underwater inspection robots used on dams. The crawling device includes at least one set of wheeled leg mechanisms, an angle adjusting mechanism and a length adjusting mechanism, wherein an upper end of the length adjusting mechanism ...