ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,626, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Novamera Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Ground penetrating radar apparatus and method" was invented by Stephen Douglas Butt (St. John's, Canada), Allan Cramm (Baie Verte, Canada), Andrew Caruana (Burlington, Canada), Yingjian Xiao (Daqing, China), Li Zijian (St. John's, Canada), Jeronimo De Moura Jr. (St. John's, Canada), Daniel Altdorff (St. John's, Canada) and Ramin Rafiei (St. John's, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for ground penetrating radar includes an antenna disposed within a sleeve. The sleeve includes a radar-absorbing material for attenuating the amplitude of incident ...