US Patent Issued to General Electric, Oliver Crispin Robotics on Sept. 16 for "Insertion tool" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,800, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio) and Oliver Crispin Robotics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Insertion tool" was invented by Deepak Trivedi (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Grover Andrew Bennett (Esperance, N.Y.), Stephen Paul Leclerc (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Andrew Crispin Graham (Badminton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insertion tool for performing an operation on equipment, the insertion tool including: a plurality of segments, each segment of the plurality of segments including a body comprising: a first hinge; and a second hinge, the first hinge of a first segment being coupled...