ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,601, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to iPEK International GmbH (Sulzberg, Germany).
"Sewer inspection and/or maintenance system" was invented by Hannes Endler (Kempten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewer inspection and/or maintenance system includes a base unit and at least one system component which can be arranged on the base unit, wherein a transponder is arranged on the system component, and a reading device is arranged on the base unit, wherein the transponder is adapted to provide data identifying the system component, and the reading device is adapted to receive the data provided by the transponder from the trans...