ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,430, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).
"Trackable dipole devices, methods, and systems" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.), Jan Soukup (San Diego) and James F. Kleyn (Santee, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Location systems and methods for locating paint and other markings on a surface are disclosed. A paint marking stick may include a magnetic field sonde that is actuated in conjunction with dispensing of paint or other markers, where the sonde generates a magnetic field signal in conjunction with dispensing of paint or placement of a marker. A corresponding utility locator may receive t...