US Patent Issued to EXAIL on June 17 for "Depointable parametric echosounder, and method for characterizing a portion of the sub-bottom of a subaquatic environment" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,348, issued on June 17, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"Depointable parametric echosounder, and method for characterizing a portion of the sub-bottom of a subaquatic environment" was invented by Frederic Mosca (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Guillaume Matte (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an echosounder configured to: a) drive the transducers of its emitting antenna to emit first and second acoustic waves having first and second frequencies, these waves being superposed over one another along an axis of superposition that is directed toward a point of the bottom o...