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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11144063 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 04, 2018

System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface

Applicant:

Gecko Robotics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Loosararian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Joshua Moore, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Yizhu Gu, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Kevin Low, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Edward Bryner, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Logan MacKenzie, Union City, PA (US);

Ian Miller, Aspinwall, PA (US);

Alvin Chou, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Todd Joslin, Wexford, PA (US);

Assignee:

Gecko Robotics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Attorney:

GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates

Primary Examiner:

Helen C Kwok

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01N 29/00 (2006.01); G01N 29/22 (2006.01); G01N 29/265 (2006.01); G01N 29/28 (2006.01); G01B 17/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 29/07 (2006.01); B62D 57/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/00 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B60B 19/00 (2006.01); G01B 7/06 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0227 (2013.01); B25J 5/007 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B60B 19/006 (2013.01); B62D 57/02 (2013.01); G01B 7/105 (2013.01); G01B 17/02 (2013.01); G01B 17/025 (2013.01); G01N 29/00 (2013.01); G01N 29/225 (2013.01); G01N 29/265 (2013.01); G01N 29/28 (2013.01); G05B 19/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0272 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G01N 29/07 (2013.01); G01N 2291/011 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0231 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0258 (2013.01); G01N 2291/0289 (2013.01); G01N 2291/02854 (2013.01); G01N 2291/044 (2013.01); G01N 2291/051 (2013.01); G01N 2291/106 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2634 (2013.01); G01N 2291/2636 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45066 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes an inspection robot having a plurality of input sensors, the plurality of input sensors distributed horizontally relative to an inspection surface and configured to provide inspection data of the inspection surface at selected horizontal positions; a controller, comprising: a position definition circuit structured to determine an inspection robot position of the inspection robot on the inspection surface; a data positioning circuit structured to interpret the inspection data, and to correlate the inspection data to the inspection robot position on the inspection surface; and wherein the data positioning circuit is further structured to determine position informed inspection data in response to the correlating of the inspection data with the inspection robot position.

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