ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,837, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to HONG KONG CENTRE FOR LOGISTICS ROBOTICS Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Robots for water tunnel inspection and systems thereof" was invented by Jianshu Zhou (Hong Kong), Junda Huang (Hong Kong) and Yunhui Liu (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, provided is a robot for water tunnel inspection, comprising: (a) a shell, comprising an upper shell and a lower shell; wherein the upper shell and the lower shell are sized and shaped to match each other, together defining a closed cavity therewithin; (b) a camera system, configured to capture an image or video of a field of view of surroun...