ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,198, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARIX TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Houston).
"Modular pipe traversing apparatus" was invented by Karl Petter Wehlin (Houston), Bryan R. Duerfeldt (Houston), Conner S. George (Houston), Jakob R. Salazar (Houston), Curtis Woods Belknap Jr. (Houston) and Gail Paulin Murray (Tomball, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic apparatus having first and second wheels with rollers coupled by a frame, third and fourth wheels with rollers circumferentially offset from the first and second wheels, and a clamping assembly coupled to the frame and configured to apply a force for urging the third and fourth whe...