ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,916, issued on March 31, was assigned to GLOBAL CEN TECHNOLOGIES SL (Santa Maria del Cami, Spain).
"Electric potential measurement system for continuously measuring the electric potential of the ground" was invented by Jose Maria Marti Sauras (Binissalem, Spain), David Bosch Ros (Sabadell, Spain) and Alvaro Sanz Gomez (Palma, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric potential measurement system for detecting contaminants in the subsoil, comprising: a reference electrode (2); a vehicle (3); a measurement electrode (4), with: a contact electrode (7) formed by an electrically insulating container (13) including a metal electrod...