US Patent Issued to Orica International on Oct. 14 for "Deployment of quasi-planar shock wave generators in association with seismic exploration" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,944, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Orica International Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Deployment of quasi-planar shock wave generators in association with seismic exploration" was invented by Eddie Petrovic (Brunswick, Australia), Clint Brealey (Montmorency, Australia), Steve Kotsonis (Brunswick, Australia), Melanie Bradley (Essendon, Australia) and Dale S. Preece (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a geophysical or seismic exploration system. The system comprises a set of explosive device magazines configured for carrying a plurality of explosive device components, wherein the explosive device components ...