ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,296, issued on May 20, was assigned to R3VOX LTD (Malta).
"Acoustic doppler system and method" was invented by Jens Steenstrup (B'Kara, 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 multibeam echo sounder having a projector array and a hydrophone array uses a multi-component message to ensonify one or more fans to estimate a Doppler velocity."
The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2023, under Application No. 18/387,234.
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