US Patent Issued to SERCEL on June 9 for "Self-orienting sensing node and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,530, issued on June 9, was assigned to SERCEL (Carquefou, France).

"Self-orienting sensing node and method" was invented by Maxime Courtin (Carquefou, France), Eliott Planchin (Carquefou, France) and Cyrille Bernard (Saint-Philibert de Grand-Lieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing node for sensing a parameter when deployed on the ground, includes an outer housing having an internal cavity with an opening to ambient, the outer housing extending along a longitudinal axis (X), an inner housing configured to hold electronics and a sensor and to fully fit inside the internal cavity, and a cap that closes the opening so that t...