US Patent Issued to Navico on April 21 for "Beamforming sonar systems for side live sonar, and associated methods" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,742, issued on April 21, was assigned to Navico Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Beamforming sonar systems for side live sonar, and associated methods" was invented by Alan Lee Proctor (Owasso, Okla.), Jeremiah D. Clark (Tulsa, Okla.) and Dustyn P. Pendergraft (Claremore, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for imaging an underwater environment. The system includes two or more arrays of transducer elements. Each array is operated at a fixed phase shift and varies in frequency so as to beamform multiple sonar return beams of a first range of angles and a second range of angles. The arrays can be oriented to create arcs of ...