US Patent Issued to ELTA SYSTEMS on Oct. 27 for "Autonomous ascent of an underwater vehicle" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,068, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ELTA SYSTEMS LTD. (Ashdod, Israel).

"Autonomous ascent of an underwater vehicle" was invented by Amit Farber (Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel), Sela Meyouhas (Kfar Yona, Israel) and Ehud Erell (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computerized method of controlling ascent of an underwater vehicle (UV) from a safety depth to a water surface, the method comprising: at safety depth, controlling the UV to collect, from a passive sonar associated with the UV, first data indicative of first locations of surface targets within a first surface area of interest; controlling ascent of...