US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Sept. 8 for "Modular underwater pipeline inspection device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,970, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Modular underwater pipeline inspection device" was invented by Huibo Zhang (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Fumin Zhang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Architectures and techniques are for significantly improving operation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). For example, a UUV can have modular interfaces that can be configured to interchangeably connect different types of sensors to facilitate different UUV applications, to interchangeably connect different types of clamping devices that can be configured f...