US Patent Issued to Jotun on July 14 for "Hull cleaning robot" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,515, issued on July 14, was assigned to Jotun A/S (Sandefjord, Norway).

"Hull cleaning robot" was invented by Geir Axel Oftedahl (Sandefjord, Norway), Anita Borve (Stathelle, Norway), Henning Johnsen (Sanderfjord, Norway), Bente Helmers (Sandefjord, Norway) and Toril Fjeldaas Rygg (Tonsberg, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, there is disclosed a robot configured to clean a surface of a coating having a Konig pendulum hardness of less than 75 counts, the robot comprising: a cleaning brush assembly comprising a lamellar cleaning brush having a plurality of lamellas extending outwardly from a brush core and having...