ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,008, issued on April 21, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inspecting industrial facilities using sensor packages" was invented by Naoyuki Fujimoto (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for inspecting industrial facilities using remote sensor packages and wireless access points (WAPs) carried by mobile robots. In various implementations, aspect(s) of an industrial process facility may be monitored using sensor package(s). The sensor package(s) may generate one or more sensor signals, and based on the one or more sensor signals, detect anomal(ies) of the monitored aspect(s...