ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,271, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).
"Dual sensed locating systems and methods" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael J. Martin (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Utility locators for providing information about hidden or buried pipes or other cavities are disclosed. A locator may be configured to provide positional information associated with the buried utility based on signals received from a line trace signal and a sonde signal and present the positional information on a visual display or other output device."
The patent was filed on Dec. 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/...