US Patent Issued to KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER on June 16 for "Pipe evaluation robot and pipe evaluation method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,318, issued on June 16, was assigned to KOREA HYDRO & NUCLEAR POWER Co. LTD (Gyeongju-si, South Korea).

"Pipe evaluation robot and pipe evaluation method" was invented by You Hyun Jang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Eun Hye Song (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to provide a pipe evaluation robot and a pipe evaluation method, in which a robot may be injected into a pipe to generate a reverberation sound and to determine soundness of the pipe on the basis of the reverberation sound, wherein the pipe evaluation robot comprises: a body injected into a pipe; a transfer module which transfers the bo...