US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on June 30 for "Method and apparatus for autonomously deploying geophysical cables in the sand dunes areas" (Russian, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,234, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Method and apparatus for autonomously deploying geophysical cables in the sand dunes areas" was invented by Pavel Golikov (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Grigoriy Yashin (Moscow) and Valerii Serpiva (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for autonomously deploying geophysical cables in sand dunes includes a surface station positioned at the sand dunes, one or more subsurface burrowing robots including distributed acoustic sensing geophysical cables laying robot, and a geo-locating radio system (GLRS). The one or more subsurface burrowing rob...