US Patent Issued to Raytheon on March 17 for "Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) processing system with multi-aspect imaging for acoustic identification" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,465, issued on March 17, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) processing system with multi-aspect imaging for acoustic identification" was invented by Nicholas J. Laboe (North Kingstown, R.I.), Andrew D. Wilby (Warwick, R.I.), Abigail R. Keith (Assonet, Mass.) and Kevin P. Bongiovanni (Portsmouth, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) processing system for acoustic identification and multi-aspect imaging may perform a first instance of stripmap processing on raw SAS data to generate an initial image and identify a region of interest within the initial image. A ...