ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,680, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Fleet Space Technologies PTY LTD (Adelaide Airport, Australia).

"Satellite-enabled node for ambient noise tomography" was invented by Braeden James Borg (Beverley, Australia) and Matthew James Pearson (Beverley, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to data acquisition units or nodes and more specifically to seismic data acquisition units or nodes for use in data gathering for ambient noise tomography (ANT). Some embodiments relate to a method for data acquisition, and systems employing one or more data acquisition units. Some embodiments relate to systems comprising one o...