US Patent Issued to Maui Imaging on Nov. 18 for "Motion detection using ping-based and multiple aperture doppler ultrasound" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,887, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Maui Imaging Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Motion detection using ping-based and multiple aperture doppler ultrasound" was invented by Donald F. Specht (Los Altos, Calif.), Kenneth D. Brewer (Santa Clara, Calif.), David M. Smith (Lodi, Calif.), Josef R. Call (Campbell, Calif.), Viet Nam Le (San Jose, Calif.) and Bruce R. Ritzi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of full-field or "ping-based" Doppler ultrasound imaging allows for detection of Doppler signals indicating moving reflectors at any point in an imaging field without the need to predefine range gates. In various embodim...