G01M 3/246
Using pigs or probes travelling in the pipe
Official title: {using pigs or probes travelling in the pipe}
G01M3/246 (Using pigs or probes travelling in the pipe) appears on 74 US grants and 76 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01M- Granted patents
- 74
- Published applications
- 76
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 163
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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