ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,261, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY (Greenville, S.C.).

"Tunneling and navigation system including distributed communication and sensing system" was invented by Kirk D. Wallace (Glenville, N.Y.), Emad A. Andarawis (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Deepak Trivedi (Halfmoon, N.Y.) and Brian J. Scherer (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a tunneling device including a body assembly configured to move through an interior cavity of a tunnel. The system also includes a distributed communication and sensing system and a controller. The distributed communication and sensing system i...