Patents by Inventor Louis Loving

Louis Loving has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Single-transmit, dual-receive sonar
    Patent number: 6421299
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for scanning a body of water for fish and other underwater articles with a sonar depth finder of a type having a transducer that can transmit an acoustic wave and receive sonar returns on both a narrow acoustic wave beam mode and on a wide acoustic wave beam mode, in which the sonar depth finder repetitively determines the approximate depth of the body of water by repetitively transmitting in the wide beam mode and receiving and displaying the sonar returns from each transmission initially in the wide beam mode and then in the narrow beam mode, with the duration of receiving in the narrow acoustic wave beam mode being a function of the determined depth from a prior transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Techsonic Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Betts, Louis Loving