US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on May 12 for "Bathy-drone: an autonomous unmanned drone-tethered sonar system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,762, issued on May 12, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Bathy-drone: an autonomous unmanned drone-tethered sonar system" was invented by Peter G. Ifju (Gainesville, Fla.), Andrew Everette Ortega (Gainesville, Fla.), Henry Tingle (Gainesville, Fla.) and Antonio Diaz (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided related to autonomous unmanned drone-tethered sonar systems. In one embodiment, a bathy-drone system includes an unmanned payload vessel and an unmanned drone tethered to the payload vessel through the tether attachment point. The unmanned payl...