US Patent Issued to WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION on April 22 for "Articulating moored profiler system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,039, issued on April 22, was assigned to WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION (Woods Hole, Mass.).

"Articulating moored profiler system" was invented by John M. Toole (Woods Hole, Mass.), Kenneth W. Doherty (Woods Hole, Mass.), Jeffrey K. O'Brien (Woods Hole, Mass.) and Frederik T. Thwaites (Woods Hole, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to profiler systems and methods for observing and sensing aspects of a body of water at a plurality of depths. A water profiler is disclosed comprising, generally, a vessel body connected to an external mooring mechanism via an attachment mechanism, a drive mechanism fo...