US Patent Issued to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Oct. 27 for "Unmanned undersea vehicle self-positioning apparatus and methods" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,064, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Unmanned undersea vehicle self-positioning apparatus and methods" was invented by Dana Colegrove (Fairfax, Va.), Peter Cho (Falls Church, Va.), Richard Banko (Ashburn, Va.), Hung Vo (Chantilly, Va.) and Jeeven Hugh (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a sensing whisker apparatus and/or method. The sensing whisker apparatus may comprise at least one sensing unit that may generate an electromagnetic field and may sense alterations to the electromagnetic field. The apparatus...