US Patent Issued to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Modular pipe inspection robot and method for inspecting an external surface of a pipe" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,516, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Modular pipe inspection robot and method for inspecting an external surface of a pipe" was invented by Faramarz Djavanroodi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdul Aziz Afzal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Raghad Hanbazazah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Elaf Suwaid (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Munirah Alhamed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Hatan Alessa (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Aseel Alshammari (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular pipe inspection robot for operation on an external surface of a pipe comprises a spherical sensor unit ha...