US Patent Issued to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 23 for "Unmanned underwater vehicle" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,223, issued on June 23, was assigned to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Unmanned underwater vehicle" was invented by Benjamin Gordon (Rockville, Md.), Jennifer Nunes (Cabin John, Md.), Isaac Downey (Middleton, Md.), Joseph Buto (Columbia, Md.) and John Phillips (Virginia Beach, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a propulsion system apparatus, an underwater apparatus comprising a propulsion system, and a method for propelling underwater. According to an example embodiment, a propulsion system may comprise a movable weight unit configured to control pitch...