ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,832, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to DeepSight Technology Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Image compounding for mixed transducer arrays" was invented by Liren Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Danhua Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging may include receiving a first signal from one or more array elements of a first type in a mixed transducer array, receiving a second signal from one or more array elements of a second type in the mixed transducer array where at least one of the first type and the second type is an optical sensor, generating a first image from the first signal and a second image from the se...