ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,156, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oceaneering International Inc. (Houston).
"Splash zone inspection robot" was invented by Vikrant Verma (Panchkula, India), Sanjay Dubey (Wagle Estate, India), Ashish Negi (Village Gazipur, India), Sheethal Sasidharan (Kerala State, India), Rajeev Narayanan Vidyadharan (Kerala, India) and Sushant Khanna (DeraBassi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of special purpose robotic systems to conduct external functions such as cleaning, monitoring and inspection of structures such as tubular assets in a splash zone. The splash zone is defined as the section of a ...