US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on Aug. 18 for "Ground surface multi-modal inspection robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,755, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong).

"Ground surface multi-modal inspection robot" was invented by Ning Xi (Hong Kong), Qingyang Wang (Hong Kong), Siyu Wang (Hong Kong) and Yongji Sheng (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inspecting surfaces that includes a mobile base, sensors for base navigation, sensors for surface inspection, a communication system and a host computer that executes modules for base motion planning and navigation, location, point cloud acquisition and processing, surface modelling and analysis, multi module coordination and user interfaces. The inspect...