ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,566, issued on July 15, was assigned to HERRENKNECHT AG (Schwanau, Germany).
"Device and method for driving a tunnel" was invented by Gerhard Wehrmeyer (Schwanau, Germany), Linus Moller (Schwanau, Germany), Werner Burger (Schwanau, Germany) and Andreas Kassel (Schwanau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for excavating a tunnel includes a cutting wheel equipped with measuring modules of sensor means on its cutting wheel face in order to directly sample the consistency of the material present between the cutting wheel face and a tunnel face by recording different types of measured values characteristic of this."
The ...