ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,869, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rosen IP AG (Stans, Switzerland).
"Inspection device and inspection unit" was invented by Andrey Danilov (Lingen, Germany), Ben Bosse (Lingen, Germany) and Patrik Rosen (Meppen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device for examining pipelines is provided, and comprises a sensor carrier which in operation is rollable through the pipeline. The sensor carrier has an at least essentially circular circumference in a cross section that runs transverse to an axis of rotation. The sensor carrier also has at least one sensor unit. The sensor carrier further comprises at least one stab...