US Patent Issued to Keller North America on March 11 for "Flush-mount deformation monitoring system" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,825, issued on March 11, was assigned to Keller North America Inc. (Hanover, Md.).

"Flush-mount deformation monitoring system" was invented by Andrew Woods (Charlestown, R.I.), Leray Erick Rinne (Carolina, R.I.) and Pierre Gouvin (Jamestown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsidence monitoring system that employs an automated total monitoring stations (AMTS) in combination with a field-array of flush-mount prisms well-suited for monitoring settlement of roadways and other surfaces or structures. A method of installation of said field-array of flush-mount prism assemblies is also disclosed, along with tool for said installatio...