US Patent Issued to General Electric, Oliver Crispin Robotics on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods of servicing equipment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,623, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Oliver Crispin Robotics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods of servicing equipment" was invented by Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain), David Scott Diwinsky (West Chester, Ohio), Byron Andrew Pritchard Jr. (Loveland, Ohio) and Julian Matthew Foxall (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of servicing aviation equipment including at least partially-autonomously inspecting components of the equipment using an environmental capture device, wherein at least partially-autonomous inspection includes:...