US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on Aug. 12 for "Small signal detection filter" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,066, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"Small signal detection filter" was invented by Matthew Clive Taylor (Auckland, New Zealand) and Shinya Tanimura (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sonar device including reception circuitry and processing circuitry is disclosed. The reception circuitry acquires sonar data from one or more targets in an underwater environment. The processing circuitry includes a target detector, a first noise filter, a second noise filter, and a selector. The target detector generates a binary mask that indicates presence or absence of target b...