US Patent Issued to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Pipeline inspection robot with crisscross structure-changeable crawler belts and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,938, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Pipeline inspection robot with crisscross structure-changeable crawler belts and control method thereof" was invented by Aiguo Song (Nanjing, China), Shaohu Wang (Nanjing, China), Huijun Li (Nanjing, China), Tianyuan Miao (Nanjing, China), Qinjie Ji (Nanjing, China), Yuefeng Xu (Nanjing, China) and Bo Xu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipeline inspection robot with crisscross structure-changeable crawler belts includes a robot main body, crawler belt tilt angle adjustment mechanisms symmetrically provided on left and right sides of the rob...