ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,134, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).
"Mapping locating systems and methods" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.), Ray Merewether (La Jolla, Calif.), Paul G. Stuart (La Mesa, Calif.), Michael J. Martin (San Diego) and Paul Wisecaver (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Locator systems are disclosed for locating buried utilities such as conduits, cables, pipes. or wires. The locator system may include image-capturing and position and orientation measuring devices such as magnetic compass, accelerometers, gyros, GPS, and DGPS. The system may associate images captured during the locate process...