ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,820, issued on April 14, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).
"Adaptive contrast for sonar images" was invented by Paul Robert Bailey (Auckland, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the enhancement of sonar data is provided comprising one or more processors, a memory, and one or more sonar transducer assemblies configured to provide sonar data. The memory includes computer program code configured to, when executed, cause the processor(s) to receive the sonar data, with the sonar data providing information representative of an underwater environment around a watercraft. The computer program code is also conf...