US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Sept. 2 for "Rollable, large vertical aperture, acoustic planar towed array" (Rhode Island, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,360, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Rollable, large vertical aperture, acoustic planar towed array" was invented by David J Daily (Middletown, R.I.), Simon E Freeman (Portsmouth, R.I.), Lauren A Freeman (Portsmouth, R.I.), William A Visser (West Warwick, R.I.) and Jason R Morin (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar sensor array includes a center tube, a first group of tubes, and a second group of tubes. One or more of the first group of tubes is positively buoyant, and at least one of the second group of tubes is negatively buoyant. A...