Dr. Edward Grant, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center For Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM) at NC State University, and Dr. John F. Muth, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State, along with their students have received a U.S. patent for their pipe-crawling robot. The Modular Observation Crawler And Sensing Instrument (MOCASIn) was developed in 1999.

The former electrical and computer engineering students named in the patent are Steve Cottle, currently at SAS Institute in Cary; Jason Cox, currently at IBM in Research Triangle Park; and Brian Dessent, currently a graduate research student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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