US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Nov. 25 for "Drone swarm-based seismic surveying for oil exploration and landmine detection" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,078, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Drone swarm-based seismic surveying for oil exploration and landmine detection" was invented by Mohamed Alsayed Ahmed Mohamed Ismail (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ayman Muhammed Abdallah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting an underground object based on seismic surveying includes a seismic wave generator configured to transmit seismic shock waves from an Earth surface into a subsurface region, and a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) configured to emit a plurality of LDV beams toward a pl...