US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on June 24 for "Systems and methods for adaptively reducing acoustic reflections in capacitive transducers" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,141, issued on June 24, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for adaptively reducing acoustic reflections in capacitive transducers" was invented by Ahmad Rezvanitabar (Atlanta), Evren Fatih Arkan (Atlanta) and Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for improving broad bandwidth performance of CMUT elements and arrays using negative capacitance-based impedance matching. The disclosed systems and methods provide a controllable compromise balance between electrical power transfer, acoustic reflectivity, and signal-to-noise ratio. Certa...