US Patent Issued to SERCEL on Dec. 30 for "Method for planning a trajectory in presence of water current" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,364, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SERCEL (Carquefou, France).

"Method for planning a trajectory in presence of water current" was invented by Thomas Mensch (Massy, France) and Timothee Moulinier (Massy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a marine vessel plans a trajectory between a first point and a second point, the trajectory having a first path and a second path. The method includes a first step of computing a theoretical trajectory in a ground reference frame from the first point to the second point, assuming an absence of water current. The theoretical trajectory has a first theoretical path and a ...