ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,428, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Osprey Measurement Systems LTD (East Sussex, Great Britain).
"Settlement monitoring system and method" was invented by Daniel Scott (Uckfield, Great Britain) and Peter Scott (East Sussex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A settlement monitoring system 1 for a construction site 400, the system 1 comprising an elongate liquid vessel 100, a continuous body of liquid 110 within the vessel 100, a first sensor 201 housed within a first portion of the vessel, and at least one additional sensor 202-206 housed within a second portion of the liquid vessel 100, wherein the sensors 201-206 are ...