US Patent Issued to Garmin International on Aug. 25 for "Steerable sonar mounting system" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,015, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Steerable sonar mounting system" was invented by Adam E. Reetz (Olathe, Kan.) and Chad D. DeConink (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable sonar mounting system comprises a sonar transducer, a gesture remote, and a motorized steering unit. The gesture remote includes a sensor, a memory, and a processor coupled to both the memory and the sensor. The processor is configured to receive a user command for repositioning the sonar transducer based on the movement of the gesture remote, determine a corresponding gesture movement using data fr...