ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,069, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SERCEL (Carquefou, France).
"Autonomous underwater vehicle and corresponding guidance method" was invented by Christophe L'Her (Carquefou, France) and Pascal Coince (Carquefou, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous underwater vehicle (1) has a housing (10) having a measurement system (13) with three acceleration or speed sensors on different axes from one another, and a processing unit configured to generate seismic data from the received seismic waves (S1) and to determine the direction (D2) of the acoustic waves (S2) transmitted by an acoustic transmitter (20) from a base (2) whic...