US Patent Issued to FNV IP on Oct. 7 for "Moving velocity profiler for vessel-based underwater sensing" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,308, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FNV IP B.V. (Leidschendam, Netherlands).

"Moving velocity profiler for vessel-based underwater sensing" was invented by Chad Pastor (Lafayette, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a towed sensing apparatus for underwater profiling. The apparatus includes a sensor array including one or more sound velocity sensors for determining vertical water column profile information. A sensor housing portion can include a receptacle for receiving the sensor array, the receptacle including one or more apertures for providing water flow to the sensor array during subsurface deployment of the ...