US Patent Issued to EXAIL on July 14 for "System for recovering autonomous underwater or surface water vehicles" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,517, issued on July 14, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"System for recovering autonomous underwater or surface water vehicles" was invented by Sebastien Grall (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Lionel Secco (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recovering, in a support and storage structure, an autonomous aquatic vehicle. The structure includes an access opening through which the autonomous vehicle can pass to enter into a housing of the structure or leave the housing in a main access direction. At least one drive member of the autonomous vehicle is arranged in the access ...