US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on June 24 for "Method and system for determining top and bottom depth of an under water mud layer" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,413, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Method and system for determining top and bottom depth of an under water mud layer" was invented by Robbert Van Vossen (Woerden, Netherlands), Augustinus Laurens Dominicus Beckers ('s-Gravnehage, Netherlands), Johannes Jeroen Maria Van De Sande ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Maurits Reinold Huisman (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depth of a top (24) and bottom (28) of an under water mud layer (26) are measured as a function of position from acoustical scattering mea...