US Patent Issued to Johnson Outdoors on Aug. 11 for "System and method for maintaining sonar imaging of a structure regardless of mounting platform movement and orientation" (Alabama, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,614, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Johnson Outdoors Inc. (Racine, Wis.).

"System and method for maintaining sonar imaging of a structure regardless of mounting platform movement and orientation" was invented by William M. Gibson (Eufaula, Ala.), Justin Freeman (Ball Ground, Ga.) and Patrick Snellings (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sonar positioning system and method is provided to position a sonar array, such as a sonar array integrated in a trolling motor propulsion unit housing. The system operates to steer the sonar array once locked on a target or oriented in a desired orientation to counter or compensate for...