US Patent Issued to IXBLUE on Nov. 4 for "System and method for deploying and recovering an autonomous underwater craft by a recovery vehicle towed by a ship, underwater exploration assembly" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,605, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IXBLUE (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"System and method for deploying and recovering an autonomous underwater craft by a recovery vehicle towed by a ship, underwater exploration assembly" was invented by Sebastien Grall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and a method for deploying and recovering an autonomous underwater craft by a ship-towed recovery vehicle. The craft is stored in the recovery vehicle's housing. The deployment is carried out in a first stage submerging the recovery vehicle with the craft stored therein, and a second stage relea...