Patents by Inventor Darrel L. Lager

Darrel L. Lager has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4161687
    Abstract: Underground anomalies or discontinuities, such as holes, tunnels, and caverns, are located by lowering an electromagnetic signal transmitting antenna down one borehole and a receiving antenna down another, the ground to be surveyed for anomalies being situated between the boreholes. Electronic transmitting and receiving equipment associated with the antennas is activated and the antennas are lowered in unison at the same rate down their respective boreholes a plurality of times, each time with the receiving antenna at a different level with respect to the transmitting antenna. The transmitted electromagnetic waves diffract at each edge of an anomaly. This causes minimal signal reception at the receiving antenna. Triangulation of the straight lines between the antennas for the depths at which the signal minimums are detected precisely locates the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: R. Jeffrey Lytle, Darrel L. Lager, Edwin F. Laine, Donald T. Davis