ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,275, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Ultrasonic device coexistence" was invented by Joe Youssef (Noyarey, France), Mitchell Kline (Alameda, Calif.) and Richard J. Przybyla (Piedmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a processor communicatively coupled with an ultrasonic sensor which is configured to repeatedly emit ultrasonic pulses during transmit periods which are interspersed with receive periods. Returned ultrasonic signals corresponding to the emitted ultrasonic pulses are received by the ultrasonic sensor during the receive periods. The processor is configured to dir...