US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on April 8 for "Electroacoustic transducer array" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,682, issued on April 8, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Electroacoustic transducer array" was invented by Lionel William John Kent (Chelmsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroacoustic transducer array 110 is described. The electroacoustic transducer array 110 comprises a first electroacoustic transducer 40A comprising a first active element 41A and a second electroacoustic transducer 40B comprising a second active element 41B. The electroacoustic transducer array 110 comprises an acoustic coupling layer 43 arranged to acoustically couple, in use, the first active element 41A and the second active el...