G03B 37/005
Photographing internal surfaces
Official title: {Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe, (G03B37/02 - G03B37/06 take precedence; instruments for performing medical examinations of cavities or tubes of the body by photographic inspection A61B1/00)}
G03B37/005 (Photographing internal surfaces) appears on 190 US grants and 170 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 170
- Assignees
- 108
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Spring assemblies with variable flexibility for use with push-cables and pipe inspection systems22 Sep 2026US 12,743,014 B2Seescan, Inc.
- Video push-cables for pipe inspection systems4 Aug 2026US 12,700,522 B1Seescan, Inc.
- Encapsulated optical imaging camera17 Feb 2026US 12,554,108 B2Omniscient Imaging, Inc.
- Leak detection27 Jan 2026US 12,535,377 B2Synovate Limited
- Adjustable variable resolution inspection systems and methods27 Jan 2026US 12,535,434 B1Seescan, Inc.
- Predictive Digital Camera Self Leveling20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245248 A1
- Ultrasonic borescope for drilled shaft inspection12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043995 A1Aver Technologies, Inc.
- Velocity matching imaging of a target element12 Feb 2026US 2026/0046522 A1General Electric Company
- Accessible drum-reel frame for pipe inspection camera system14 Aug 2025US 2025/0256945 A1
- Pipeline endoscope probe and pipeline endoscope assembly26 Jun 2025US 2025/0211843 A1Shenzhen Andelian Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pipe mapping system98US 8,547,428 B1Seescan, Inc. · 2013
- Pipe mapping system and methods67US 9,041,794 B1Seescan, Inc. · 2015
- Pipe inspection system with selective image capture64US 8,395,661 B1SeekTech, Inc. · 2013
- Apparatus for inspecting the interior of pipes50US 5,754,220 AEmerson Electric Co. · 1998
- Pipe inspection system with selective image capture47US 9,134,255 B1Seescan, Inc. · 2015