ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,736, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Self-contained conductivity concentration profiling system" was invented by Ryan S. Mieras (Wilmington, N.C.), Jack A. Puleo (Newark, Del.), Charles Key (Diamondhead, Miss.), Edward F. Braithwaite (Covington, La.) and Joseph Calantoni (Diamondhead, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for developing a self-contained conductivity concentration profiler (CCP) system for standalone coastal and ocean deployment. A self-contained CCP system in accordance with ...