ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,354, issued on May 20, was assigned to AyDeeKay LLC (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
"Integrated electromagnetic-acoustic sensor and sensing" was invented by Ross Jatou (San Jose, Calif.), Danny Elad (Kibutz Matzuva, Israel) and Dan Corcos (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One illustrative integrated electromagnetic-acoustic sensor includes: a ground plane; a patch antenna above the ground plane to send or receive an electromagnetic (EM) signal having an EM signal frequency; and an array of capacitive micromachined acoustic transducers formed by cavities between the patch antenna and a base electrode to send or receive an acoust...