ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,545, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to iPEK International GmbH (Sulzberg, Germany).
"System and method for autonomously positioning a camera of a sewer inspection and/or maintenance system" was invented by Fabrizio Tozzo (Wolfertschwenden, Germany), Rajeesh Kumar (Kempten, Germany) and Muhammad Talha (Durach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sewer inspection or maintenance system is provided having a sensor system with which at least three distances between a predetermined first point in the sewer pipe and the sewer wall of the sewer pipe are detected. The system has a processing unit adapted for determining a diameter of the ...