US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 27 for "Phase delay ultrasound for steered ultrasound beam" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,740, issued on May 27, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Phase delay ultrasound for steered ultrasound beam" was invented by Francesco Larocca (Kirkland, Wash.), Anton Andreevich Shkel (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Sachin Talathi (Snoqualmie, Wash.) and Ning Lu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound activation signal is received from ultrasound driving logic. A phase delay module of an ultrasound module generates phase-differentiated drive signals. The phase-differentiated drive signals are driven onto an array of ultrasound transducers to generate a steered ultrasound beam."

The p...