ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,908, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (Acton, Australia).

"Rock fall analyser" was invented by Marc Elmouttie (Acton, Australia), Xun Luo (Acton, Australia), Peter Dean (Acton, Australia) and Joey Duan (Acton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to analysing rock falls. A video camera captures video data, a depth measurement system captures depth data, a seismic sensor captures seismic data, and a data store stores spatial characterising data of the rock fall site. A processor detects a rock fall source location based on the video data, depth ...