US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Feb. 10 for "System and method for determining the mass of a ship moving in water" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,377, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"System and method for determining the mass of a ship moving in water" was invented by Johannes Solass (Freiburg, Germany) and Corinna Kopke (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method which determines the mass of a ship moving in water, comprising at least two gravitational field strength sensor units that are stationary relative to the ship at a known distance from each other, and an analytical unit which determines the mass of the ship based of measurement signals acquired by the at lea...