ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,677, issued on July 29, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).
"Aerial robotic systems" was invented by Robert Nichols (Saint Joseph, Mo.), Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.), Sebastian Orellana (Kansas City, Mo.), Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.) and David F. Lindquist (Cameron, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a task in an aerial work environment by a robot system are described herein. An aerial robot system may be provided at a boom tip of an aerial device for performing work on aerial power/telecommunication systems. The aerial robot system may comprise manipulators includ...