ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,385, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ARIX TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Houston).
"Radiography inspection and fail-safe mechanism for pipe traversing robots" was invented by Bryan R. Duerfeldt (Houston), Conner S. George (Houston), Karl Petter Wehlin (Houston) and Dianna D. Liu (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiography system for use on a pipe traversing robot, including a mechanism configured to automatically adjust the position(s) of a radiation source and/or an imager thereof based on a diameter of the pipe. Another radiography system including a computer vision system configured to process radiography imagery to define a meas...