ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,924, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ELWAVE (Carquefou, France) and INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (Palaiseau, France).
"Method of detection in an electrically conductive medium" was invented by Quentin Vincent Delplanque (Nantes, France), Lyes Ifrek (Nantes, France), Frederic Boyer (Mouzeil, France) and Vincent Paul Yannick Lebastard (La Chapelle Launay, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method can be used to locate or identify an object in an electrically conductive medium with a detection system that comprises n electrodes in direct electrical contact with the conductive medium. The n electrodes can be placed in at least three d...