ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,490, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SEZANNE MARINE Ltd. (Argyll, Great Britain).

"Systems and methods for acoustic and/or electromagnetic imaging" was invented by Ceri Reid (Central Scotland, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in acoustic imaging, comprising: transmitting, from a transmitter, a first sound wave pulse at a first frequency determined by a maximum sampling rate of a receiver; transmitting at least one second sound wave pulse at a frequency substantially equal to the first frequency, the first and at least one second sound wave pulses being transmitted substantially within a fraction of a sam...