US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Aug. 25 for "Acoustic system with increased sensitivity" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,053, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Acoustic system with increased sensitivity" was invented by Joseph M. Misulia (Attleboro, Mass.) and Robert C. Haberman (Mystic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic system and method of fabricating the acoustic system, wherein the acoustic system comprises at least one tube having at least one opening through which an acoustic wave travels to increase sensitivity of the acoustic system and at least one hydrophone in the at least one tube, wherein the at least one hydrophone is encapsulated and the method comprises inserting at least one encapsulated ...