US Patent Issued to SeeScan on March 18 for "Vehicle-based utility locating using principal components" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,382, issued on March 18, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).

"Vehicle-based utility locating using principal components" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.), Paul Wisecaver (San Diego) and Samantha Crane-Solis (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to vehicle-based systems for locating and mapping buried utility lines using principal components. Vehicle-based utility locating devices receive magnetic field signals emitted by utility lines and, with determined position data, implement principal component analysis to locate and map the utility lines."

The patent was f...