US Patent Issued to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 14 for "Apparatus and method for measuring shape of underwater tow cables" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,811, issued on July 14, was assigned to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Apparatus and method for measuring shape of underwater tow cables" was invented by Stephen Shepherd (Arlington, Va.), Christopher Bradner (Herndon, Va.), Damien Bretall (Bethesda, Md.), Roger Kleinmann (Berwyn Heights, Md.), Alexander S. Tsarev (North Potomac, Md.), Christopher M. Nunes (Cabin John, Md.) and Kedric C. Eisenberg (Winchester, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a cable measuring apparatus and method comprising a cable and a fairing system. The cable may be configured t...