US Patent Issued to University of Manitoba, Polyvalor on July 14 for "Vibratory burrowing probe for investigating subsurface regions of granular media in IG and low/micro gravity conditions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,392, issued on July 14, was assigned to University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada) and Polyvalor LP (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Vibratory burrowing probe for investigating subsurface regions of granular media in IG and low/micro gravity conditions" was invented by Pooneh Maghoul (Montreal), Mahdi Alaei Varnosfaderani (Winnipeg, Canada) and Nan Wu (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact vibratory burrowing probe, particularly beneficial in low gravity space exploration environments, uses lateral or stirring-like vibrations to fluidize a surrounding regolith, thereby decreasing the penetration resistance, and compensating fo...