ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,739, issued on May 27, was assigned to R3VOX LTD (Malta).

"Multi-perspective ensonification system and method" was invented by Jens Steenstrup (B'Kara, Malta), Christopher Tiemann (Austin, Texas), Peter Bilodeau (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 and method to improve one or more of survey quality, efficiency, and utility for example by utilizing a vessel mounted MBES and a selected survey plan to check sound speed(s) via eliciting echoes from reflectors in colocated groups of reflectors using multi-perspective ensonification."

The patent was filed...