US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Aug. 5 for "Anchor system, method and mechanism for an underwater vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,944, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Alington, Va.).

"Anchor system, method and mechanism for an underwater vehicle" was invented by Ross Anthony Eldred (Salinas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and system to provide a Resetting Anchor/Antenna Tether Mechanism (RAATM) to provide, according to an exemplary embodiment, dual anchoring and antenna capabilities to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The RAATM is resettable; an AUV can anchor at one location for a period of time, retrieve the anchor, move to a new lo...