US Patent Issued on March 25 for "Geophysical data acquisition system and method of acquisition of geophysical data" (Portuguese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,509, issued on March 25.

"Geophysical data acquisition system and method of acquisition of geophysical data" was invented by John Archer (Lagoa, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a geophysical data acquisition system. The system comprises a frame assembly; a set of ground engaging members connected to the frame assembly, and adapted to move the frame assembly along the ground surface; and a carrier assembly carried by the frame assembly, the carrier assembly having one or more seismic source subsystems and a drive mechanism adapted to move each of the one or more seismic source subsystems through a plurality of po...