ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,219, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to R3 VOX LTD (Malta).

"Multifan survey system and method" was invented by Jens Steenstrup (Birkirkara, Malta), Christopher Tiemann (Austin, Texas), Mark Chun (Austin, Texas) and Kirk Hobart (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A survey system including a multibeam echo sounder having a single projector array and a single hydrophone array constructs a multi-component message for ensonifying multiple fans and deconstructs a corresponding message echo for use in analyzing the returns from each fan."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/606,044.

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