US Patent Issued to Garmin International on May 27 for "Topside buoy system" (North Carolina, Kansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,053, issued on May 27, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Topside buoy system" was invented by Michael R. Kleinigger (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Patrick M. Danko (Overland Park, Kan.), Paul Benjamin H. Collins (Venice, Calif.), Christopher R. Koszarsky (Holly Springs, N.C.), Samantha E. Classen (Durham, N.C.), Victor N. Snesarev (Cary, N.C.), Young-hoon Kim (Raleigh, N.C.), Christopher M. Kachur (Raleigh, N.C.) and James E. Corbett (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topside buoy system is disclosed for relaying a status of a diver between a monitoring station and a diver's wearable device and scuba tan...