ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,167, issued on July 1, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Oliver Crispin Robotics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"System and method of using a tool assembly" was invented by Mandar Diwakar Godbole (Bengaluru, India), Byron Andrew Pritchard Jr. (Loveland, Ohio), Kirti Arvind Petkar (Bengaluru, India), Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of using a tool assembly is provided. The system includes a body, a first camera and a second camera fixed to the body, and a ...