ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,292, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rosen IP AG (Stans, Switzerland).
"Odometer and inspection and/or cleaning device" was invented by Andrey Danilov (Lingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An odometer is provided for distance measurement in an inspection and/or cleaning device. The odometer includes a carrier provided for rolling on a surface, and which is arranged in a holder of the odometer so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. The carrier has a multiplicity of magnets arranged circumferentially around the axis of rotation. The odometer also includes a magnetic field sensor for generating signals produced th...