US Patent Issued to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS on Dec. 30 for "Ground-penetrating radar scanner with balanced UWB directional coupler" (Italian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,628, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).

"Ground-penetrating radar scanner with balanced UWB directional coupler" was invented by Wilfried Kaneider (Rankweil-Brederis, Austria), Stefano Di Bene (Cascina, Italy) and Alessandro Simi (Leghorn, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scanner for investigating a sub-surface, wherein the GPR scanner comprises an antenna assembly configured for transmitting and receiving ultra-wide band (UWB) signals. The GPR scanner further comprises a directional coupler, a UWB signal generator configured for providing outgoing UWB...