US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 23 for "Ocean sound speed profiling lidar" (Rhode Island, Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,544, issued on June 23, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy.

"Ocean sound speed profiling lidar" was invented by John A Smith (Norfolk, Va.), Alan J Davis (Wakefield, R.I.), Charles M Traweek (Saint Leonard, Md.) and Anthony Ruffa (Hope Valley, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for obtaining oceanographic information includes a controllable coherent light source providing light to an aquatic region. A telescope receives backscattered light that is filtered by an ambient light filter. A first interferometer receives filtered, backscattered light and provides a particu...