ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,055, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ULC Technologies LLC (Hauppauge, N.Y.).
"System and method for data acquisition" was invented by Ali Asmari (Selden, N.Y.), Xinghua Jia (Bellmore, N.Y.) and Robert E. Kodadek III (Long Beach, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for pipeline data acquisition using a robotic system is provided. The robotic system includes a transport module with a video camera designed to capture images as the transport module traverses along an interior of a pipeline. The robotic system also includes a control module with a processor designed to process the images, identify a feature in the i...