ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,199, issued on July 22, was assigned to Gecko Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Inspection robots and methods for inspection of curved surfaces with sensors at selected horizontal distances" was invented by Edward A. Bryner (Pittsburgh), Kevin Y. Low (Pittsburgh), Ignacio J. Cordova (Pittsburgh), Francesco H. Trogu (Pittsburgh), Joshua D. Moore (Pittsburgh), Yizhu Gu (Pittsburgh), Ian Miller (Aspinwall, Pa.), Alvin Chou (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Mark Jake Loosararian (Glenshaw, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inspection robots and methods for inspection of curved surfaces with sensors at selected horizontal distances are described. An exam...