US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Regional gain control for segmented thin-film acoustic imaging systems" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,873, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Regional gain control for segmented thin-film acoustic imaging systems" was invented by Gordon S. Franza (Rockledge, Fla.), Gregory T. Minteer (Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.), Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost (San Francisco), Dale Setlak (Merritt Island, Fla.), Marcus C. Yip (San Carlos, Calif.), Ehsan Khajeh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Aaron S. Tucker (Redwood City, Calif.), Andrew W. Joyce (San Jose, Calif.), Brian M. King (Saratoga, Calif.), Giovanni Gozzini (Berkeley, Calif.) and Jason S. Griesbach (Sausalito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic imaging system ...