ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,369, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to RodRadar Ltd. (Rinatya, Israel).
"System and method for avoiding utility strikes by construction equipment" was invented by Yossi Gershon (Mazor, Israel), Ronen Globinsky (Tel Aviv, Israel), John Francis Roulston (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Moshe Dalman (Mazor, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GPR (ground penetrating radar) system includes a digging machine having a bucket, a GPR unit and a post-processing unit. The GPR unit is mounted on the bucket and includes at least one GPR antenna and a data processor. Both the at least one antenna and the data processor are mounted within the b...