ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,761, issued on April 22, was assigned to Gecko Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).
"Methods and inspection robots with on body configuration" was invented by Edward A. Bryner (Pittsburgh) and Edwin H. Cho (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and inspection robots with on body configuration are described. An example inspection robot may have a center body with a plurality of connected drive modules, each drive module having a sensing circuit to measure a drive module operating characteristic, and a visual indicator circuit to output a first visual indicator corresponding to the drive module operating characteristic. The visual in...