US Patent Issued to Johnson Outdoors on May 20 for "Multiplexed phased array multibeam sonar" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,327, issued on May 20, was assigned to Johnson Outdoors Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"Multiplexed phased array multibeam sonar" was invented by Jesus Carmona-Valdes (Eufaula, Ala.), Gavin William Slay (Eufaula, Ala.), William Mark Gibson (Eufaula, Ala.) and Per Oskar Pelin (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiplexed phased array sonar systems and methods for consumer fishfinders are described herein. A transducer unit for such a system includes a transmit (TX) element that generates a sonar ping, a receive (RX) array configured to receive sonar echoes resulting from the sonar ping contacting targets, a digital signal proces...