US Patent Issued to Shanghai Maritime University on Jan. 20 for "Amphibious robot for in-service inspection of drainage pipelines and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,443, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Shanghai Maritime University (Shanghai).

"Amphibious robot for in-service inspection of drainage pipelines and control method thereof" was invented by Jianhua Wang (Shanghai), Wenbo Che (Shanghai), Xiang Zheng (Shanghai), Mengdi Zhang (Shanghai), Zijun Pan (Shanghai) and Haozhu Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amphibious robot for in-service inspection of drainage pipelines and a control method thereof are provided. The robot includes a robot body, a detection module for detecting environmental state and pose information of robot itself, a propulsion module including a car-like ...