US Patent Issued to NAVICO on Sept. 15 for "Beamforming sonar system with improved sonar image functionality, and associated methods" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,670, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NAVICO INC. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Beamforming sonar system with improved sonar image functionality, and associated methods" was invented by Alan Lee Proctor (Owasso, Okla.) and Jayme J. Caspall (Tulsa, 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 one 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 cover the gap in sonar coverage for oth...