ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,017, issued on July 22.
"Systems and methods for tank cleaning" was invented by Matthew Denver Cole (Fort Collins, Colo.), Paul Damon Linnebur (Fort Collins, Colo.), Jacob Andrew Riesenweber (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Maegan Fay Gilmour (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tank cleaning system for cleaning a space. The tank cleaning system can include a trailer having a support base transportable by a vehicle, and an arm movably mounted to the support base for movement relative to the support base. The arm can be operable to extend into the space to perform a cleaning operation inside the space."
The patent was filed...