US Patent Issued to FURUNO ELECTRIC on April 14 for "System and method for sonar image display" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,822, issued on April 14, was assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Nishinomiya, Japan).

"System and method for sonar image display" was invented by Matthew Clive Taylor (Auckland, New Zealand) and Gavin John Sentch (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sonar system including a transducer and processing circuitry is disclosed. The transducer receives an ultrasonic reflection wave corresponding to a reflection of an ultrasonic transmission wave on an underwater object and generates a return signal based on the ultrasonic reflection wave. The processing circuitry generates reception beams making different angles with ...