US Patent Issued to SeeScan on Sept. 8 for "Buried utility locator auto-tuning apparatus and methods" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,167, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SeeScan Inc. (San Diego).

"Buried utility locator auto-tuning apparatus and methods" was invented by Mark S. Olsson (La Jolla, Calif.), Stephanie M. Bench (Sandersville, Ga.) and Jan Soukup (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Signal generation devices including an auto-tuning electronic circuit module for generating tuned output signals are disclosed. The auto-tuning electronic circuit module may include a tunable resonant electronic circuit element for providing a tuned output signal, including a voltage divider element and a tuning array element and control element."

The patent was fil...