ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,700, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS FOR SOCIETY (Guangdong, China).

"Cable-climbing robot" was invented by Ning Ding (Guangdong, China), Zhenliang Zheng (Guangdong, China) and Junlin Song (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable climbing robot includes a climbing front body and a detection body. The climbing front body includes a front body rack, duct propellers, a front body clasping unit and a front body control module, the duct propellers are mounted on the outer side of the front body rack; the front body clasping unit includes a front body clasping el...