ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,646, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fluke Corp. (Everett, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for representing acoustic signatures from a target scene" was invented by Michael D. Stuart (Issaquah, Wash.), Henk Koppelmans (Uden, Netherlands), Dileepa Prabhakar (Edmonds, Wash.), Scott M. Tsukamaki (Bothell, Wash.) and Darwin C. Witt (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic imaging systems can include an acoustic sensing array, an electromagnetic imaging tool, a display, and an audio device. A processor can receive data from the acoustic sensor array and the electromagnetic imaging tool to generate a display image combining acousti...