ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,914, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for detecting buried longitudinal structures by means of a ground-penetrating radar" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Dore (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting buried longitudinal structures using a ground-penetrating radar, the method includes the steps of: acquiring a plurality of radar signals for a region of ground, determining, based on the radar signals, a 3D point cloud, each point corresponding to one radar detection and being geolocated in space, searching for at least one se...