ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,512, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Chorusview Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Bulk acoustic wave based clocks for timing devices" was invented by Dean Mamoru Kawaguchi (San Jose, Calif.) and Edward Maurice Farrell (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of using a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) based clock. For example, a first burst pulse of ultrasonic waves may be received by a transmit transducer of a BAW delay device. A feedthrough pulse from the first burst pulse may be received at a receive transducer of the BAW delay device. After receiving the feedthrough pulse, a first echo pulse from th...