ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,537, issued on March 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GENERATOR Co. LTD. (Kobe City, Japan).

"Magnetically-attracting crawler moving device, multi-connected magnetically-attracting crawler moving device, and generator inspection robot" was invented by Daichi Goto (Tokyo) and Eiji Koyanagi (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetically-attracting crawler moving device has a magnetically-attracting traveling mechanism including a source device of magnetic force provided with a pair of magnets and a yoke disposed on the backside of the magnets or behind the magnet; a crawler belt rotationally running with drive portion th...