ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,894, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to R3VOX LTD (Malta).
"Multimission and multispectral sonar" was invented by Jens Steenstrup (Birkirkara, Malta), Christopher Tiemann (Austin, Texas), Mark Chun (Austin, Texas) and Kirk Hobart (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A survey system including a transmitter, receiver, projector array and hydrophone array transmits and receives sound waves to perform one or more survey missions."
The patent was filed on Nov. 7, 2023, under Application No. 18/387,521.
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