US Patent Issued to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 9 for "Method and device for docking control of underwater vehicles based on imaging sonar" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,917, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Method and device for docking control of underwater vehicles based on imaging sonar" was invented by Xianbo Xiang (Hubei, China), Zhao Wang (Hubei, China), Shaolong Yang (Hubei, China), Gong Xiang (Hubei, China) and Yan Wang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for docking control of an underwater vehicle based on sonar imaging, belonging to the field of vehicle automatic control technology. Decomposes docking control of the underwater vehicle into depth tracking control and horizontal plane docking cont...