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Patent Issued for Inspection robot for horizontal tube inspection having sensor carriage (USPTO 11892322)
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Gecko Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) has been issued patent number 11892322, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors. The patent's inventors are Auda, Michael S. (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Bryner, Edward (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Cho, Edwin H. (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Cho, Mark (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Low, Kevin (Pittsburgh, PA, US), Mackenzie, Logan (Union City, PA, US), Moore, Joshua (Pittsburgh, PA, US). This patent was filed on March 15, 2022 and was published online on February 6, 2024. From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: "The present disclosure relates to robotic inspection and treatment of industrial surfaces." Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inven- tors' summary information for this patent: "The present disclosure describes an inspection apparatus, the apparatus according to one disclosed non-limiting embodiment of the present disclosure can include a drive module including a pair of wheels structured to engage a top tube of a vertically arranged layer of tubes, at least one telescoping pole, a sensor carriage assembly coupled to the at least one telescoping pole, and a lowering mechanism operationally coupled to the at least one telescoping pole and structured to selectively extend or retract the at least one telescoping pole thereby providing a selected vertical position of the sensor carriage assembly.