US Patent Issued to Comrod AS on June 3 for "Rope robot and method for mounting an object to a power line" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,938, issued on June 3, was assigned to Comrod AS (Tau, Norway).

"Rope robot and method for mounting an object to a power line" was invented by Knut Vangen (Sandvika, Norway) and Velid Omerovic (Jorpeland, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for mounting an object, such as a line sensor, to a power line. The method includes: i) suspending and tensioning at least two ropes between a physical ground and a power line; ii) coupling a rope robot with the at least two ropes in such a way that the rope robot can climb up and down the at least two ropes in operational use; iii) providing an object on the rope robot; iv) making th...