US Patent Issued to NEVADA RESEARCH & INNOVATION on Sept. 2 for "Retrofit intelligent compaction analyzer" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,638, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NEVADA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Corp. (Reno, Nev.).

"Retrofit intelligent compaction analyzer" was invented by Sesh Commuri (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system for providing an estimate of the level of compaction of a layer of pavement materials in real time. In some embodiments, a Retrofit Intelligent Compaction Analyzer (RICA) processor of a RICA device receives vibrational energy data from a sensor module which corresponds to impact responses of a drum of a roller machine during compaction of a pavement material over a section of pavement. The RICA processo...