US Patent Issued to ROADSCANNERS HOLDING on March 17 for "Method for detecting cracks in road pavement" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,457, issued on March 17, was assigned to ROADSCANNERS HOLDING OY (Rovaniemi, Finland).

"Method for detecting cracks in road pavement" was invented by Timo Saarenketo (Rovaniemi, Finland), Pekka Maijala (Rovaniemi, Finland) and Rani Hamrouche (Rovaniemi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for detecting cracks in a road pavement by using a ground penetrating radar installed to a vehicle, the method comprises driving the vehicle along the road, scanning sections of the road, which scanned sections comprise at least one wheelpath area and at least one non-wheelpath area. The scanning includes transmitting electromagnetic puls...