US Patent Issued to Cosentino Engineering Instrumentation Services on Sept. 15 for "Portable motorized pressuremeter and method for calculating in situ soil properties" (Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,450, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cosentino Engineering Instrumentation Services LLC (Palm Bay, Fla.).

"Portable motorized pressuremeter and method for calculating in situ soil properties" was invented by Paul J. Cosentino (Palm Bay, Fla.), Thaddeus J. Misillo III (Palm Bay, Fla.), Anuar Akchurin (Melbourne, Fla.) and Brhane Weldeanenya Ygzaw (Bloomfield, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Portable motorized pressuremeter system, device and method calculating soil strengths and stiffnesses. The system uses a controller, external water supply and balloon probe. Controller houses a data acquisition card, electric motor with en...