US Patent Issued to Nanchang Hangkong University on Nov. 11 for "Flexible adaptive large length to thin ratio pipeline intelligent repair device and use method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,575, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nanchang Hangkong University (Nanchang, China).

"Flexible adaptive large length to thin ratio pipeline intelligent repair device and use method" was invented by Timing Zhang (Nanchang, China), Yuhua Chen (Nanchang, China), Jiaxing Guo (Nanchang, China), Shiyi Zhang (Nanchang, China), Shanlin Wang (Nanchang, China), Jilin Xie (Nanchang, China), Limeng Yin (Nanchang, China), Yanlin Jia (Nanchang, China) and Zhikang Ye (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible adaptive large length to thin ratio pipeline intelligent repair device is provided. The walking mechanism includes a walki...