ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,017, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Deep Isolation Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).
"Monitoring a hazardous waste repository" was invented by Richard A. Muller (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for monitoring hazardous waste include identifying a hazardous waste drillhole formed from a terranean surface into one or more subterranean formations, the hazardous waste drillhole including an entry sized to receive a plurality of hazardous waste canisters that enclose hazardous waste into and through the entry, and a hazardous waste storage area formed in a storage subterranean formation and sized to receive the plura...