US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 7 for "Methods and apparatus for subterranean marker guidance" (Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,114, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for subterranean marker guidance" was invented by Jason Peter Monast (Summerfield, Fla.) and Michael Alex Ingerman (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for subterranean guidance are disclosed. A disclosed apparatus to guide a vehicle includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a ground penetrating sensor supported by the vehicle, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to calculate, based on output from the ground pe...