ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,615, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Exponent Outdoors LLC.
"Mounting apparatus for directional dependent components" was invented by Thomas Berscheid (Dickinson, N.D.) and John Koos (Dickinson, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting device for a directional component, such as a forward-facing transducer or sonar. The mounting device can have a housing portion and a pole portion. The housing portion can include a main body positioned between a top cover and a bottom cover. The main body can have an interior sidewall. A portion of the interior sidewall can have a gear portion. The pole portion can have a gear interface port...