ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,027, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Guangzhou University (Guangzhou, China).

"Ground penetrating radar and deep learning-based underground pipeline detection method and system" was invented by Hai Liu (Guangdong, China), Xu Meng (Guangdong, China), Chao Liu (Guangdong, China) and Jie Cui (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground penetrating radar and deep learning-based underground pipeline detection method and system. Said method comprises: acquiring sample data of known underground pipelines by means of a ground penetrating radar, and establishing an GPR B-scan dataset according to the sample data; performing tr...