ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,971,373, issued on April 30, was assigned to Muon Vision Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for monitoring slope stability" was invented by Tancredi Botto (Cambridge, Mass.), Ricardo Repenning (Santiago, Chile) and Francisco Arrau (Santiago, Chile).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to monitoring and assessing the mechanical stability and fluid accumulation in natural or man-made slopes comprising primarily of unconsolidated material, such as embankments, dams, roads, waste dumps, as well as man-made heaps of bulk materials that may occur in the stockpiling of grains, gravel, stones, sand, coal, cement, fly as...