ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,574, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to North University of China (Taiyuan, China).
"Deformable tracked pipeline robot and differential turning method thereof" was invented by Hongwei Yan (Taiyuan, China), Hongmei Wei (Taiyuan, China), Qi Chang (Taiyuan, China), Guorui Wang (Taiyuan, China), Kamel Aiman (Taiyuan, China), Hailong Niu (Taiyuan, China), Fujie Wang (Taiyuan, China), Pengfei Yan (Taiyuan, China), Pengyang Zhao (Taiyuan, China), Bolong He (Taiyuan, China) and Hong Huo (Taiyuan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a deformable tracked pipeline robot, and a differential turning method thereof. The deformable tr...