ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,416, issued on April 29, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Live sonar systems and methods" was invented by Jeremiah D. Clark (Tulsa, Okla.) and Dustyn P. Pendergraft (Claremore, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating live sonar images is provided having a first and second sonar transducer assembly. The sonar transducer assemblies each have sonar transducer elements configured to transmit sonar beam(s) into an underwater environment to form respective coverage volumes. The sonar transducer assemblies each define a respective facing direction. The system includes bracket(s) having alignment feature(s). T...