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Patent Issued for Robot, system and a method for underwater monitoring and maint enance of a ship's hull (USPTO 11999450)
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-According to news reporting originatin g from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventor Fre yer, Rune (Hafrsfjord, NO), filed on April 17, 2020, was published online on Jun e 4, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11999450, is Shipshave AS (Stavanger , Norway). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "BACKGROUND ART "Maintenance and inspection of ship hull is normally performed in dry dock. Dry dock inspection and maintenance is expensive, time consuming and the vessel is t aken out of active duty. Another disadvantage of performing works out of the wat er is that inspections cannot be performed in the working environment, meaning t hat flow patterns are poorly understood. Understanding the real flow patterns du ring voyage can provide information to improve the operation and fuel economy. W ork tools containing cleaning and surface treatment tools can remove biofouling on the hull and reduce hull drag, improving fuel economy.
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