ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,317, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Bubble detection and characterization via Lidar" was invented by Damien Josset (Covington, La.), David Wang (Slidell, La.) and Brian Concannon (Lusby, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving lidar data associated with remote sensing of moving water, and calibrating the lidar data, the calibration being based on one or more measurements contemporaneously measured with remote sensing of the moving water. The method includes refining the calibrated lidar data, the ref...