ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,693, issued on July 29, was assigned to China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute (Beijing).
"Method for positioning in-oil inspection robot for storage tank bottom plate, apparatus, medium and product" was invented by Bin Hu (Beijing), Xiyue Zou (Beijing), Xiqing Liu (Beijing), Yan Zhang (Beijing), Ting Wang (Beijing), Zhiquan Wang (Beijing) and Chenxing Jia (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for positioning an in-oil inspection robot for a storage tank bottom plate, an apparatus, a medium and a product are provided. The method includes: selecting those of acoustic signal receivers that generate voltage a...