US Patent Issued to CODA OCTOPUS GROUP on March 3 for "Enhanced resolution split aperture using beam segmentation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,264, issued on March 3, was assigned to CODA OCTOPUS GROUP INC. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Enhanced resolution split aperture using beam segmentation" was invented by Matthew Duncan Powe (Dalgety Bay, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A split aperture beamforming, reflection detection, beam segmentation, and point selection scheme for obtaining high resolution sonar images is disclosed. A sonar imaging device beamforms at a coarse horizontal and vertical resolution to create smaller signal data cuboids. Each beam is partitioned into segments based on direction of arrivals obtained through split aperture beamforming. Detected points...