ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,337, issued on June 2, was assigned to VAPAR PTY LTD (Queensland, Australia).

"Technology configured to enable fault detection and condition assessment of underground stormwater and sewer pipes" was invented by Michelle Aguilar (Queenscliff, Australia) and Amanda Siqueira (Queenscliff, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to technology configured to enable fault detection and condition assessment of underground stormwater and sewer pipes. Embodiments of the present disclosure have been developed to allow automated processing of video captured by pipe inspection robots and the like thereby to identify...