US Patent Issued to Square Robot on Jan. 28 for "Systems, methods and apparatus for safe launch and recovery of an inspection vehicle" (Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,974, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Square Robot Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Systems, methods and apparatus for safe launch and recovery of an inspection vehicle" was invented by Jerome Vaganay (Norwell, Mass.), William O'Halloran (Boston) and Eric Levitt (Lincolnville, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus for launching and recovering a vehicle via a side manway of a tank are provided. A launcher is coupled to a vertical side of the tank via a manway adapter. The launcher includes a first side having a lid and a second side configured to couple with the manway adapter. The lid is removed from the fi...