US Patent Issued to Kubota on April 7 for "Attachment device and attachment method of information acquisition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,868, issued on April 7, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Attachment device and attachment method of information acquisition device" was invented by Masaru Morimura (Amagasaki, Japan) and Maiko Nishino (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment device that is capable of forming a through hole in an outer peripheral surface of a pipe using a drilling machine and attaches an information acquisition device to acquire information regarding the pipe through the through hole, includes a pipe attachment portion attachable to the pipe and including an opening communicating with the through hole, a valve portio...