ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,956, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GE Infrastructure Technology LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Tunneling and navigation systems including controller configured to determine environmental characteristic" was invented by Deepak Trivedi (Halfmoon, N.Y.), Yew Teck Tan (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Emad A. Andarawis (Ballston Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use in navigating and/or forming a tunnel includes a tunneling device including a body assembly and a fluid line coupled to the body assembly. The body assembly includes a first section and a second section that are configured to selectively adjust their size and move...