US Patent Issued to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER on Aug. 5 for "GPR scanning through the use of external scene knowledge" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,484, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"GPR scanning through the use of external scene knowledge" was invented by Johannes Maunz (Rebstein, Switzerland), Katrin Mentl (Marbach, Switzerland) and Jan Gluckert (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scanning an area using a ground penetrating radar (GPR) by moving the GPR along at least one scanning trajectory. The method includes determining at least one landmark object image feature by applying object detection techniques to images of the area to be scanned, determining a position and/or type of at least one ...