ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,916, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SERCEL (Carquefou, France).
"Hybrid seismic data acquisition device and corresponding methods" was invented by Dominique Mainetti (Carquefou, France) and Jean-Jacques Vignaux (Villeneuve de Riviere, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is proposed a seismic data acquisition device (400) intended to be placed on an ocean bottom floor, comprising a polymeric casing (412) defining a chamber that houses at least art of a data acquisition system (440, 444, 445); and a metallic device (414) in which the polymeric casing (412) is trapped, the metallic device (414) comprising two metallic beams (41...