US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 3 for "Van Atta acoustic networks for long-range underwater backscatter" (Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,912, issued on March 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Van Atta acoustic networks for long-range underwater backscatter" was invented by Fadel Adib (Cambridge, Mass.), Waleed Akbar (Cambridge, Mass.), Aline Eid (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John Clayton Rademacher Jr. (Somerville, Mass.) and Purui Wang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a retroreflective underwater backscatter node comprising a receiver that receives an incoming acoustic signal from a first direction; a reflector that reflects back an incoming acoustic signal in a second direction; and a modulator co...