US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Acoustic sensing and communication using a metasurface" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,369, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Acoustic sensing and communication using a metasurface" was invented by Lili Qiu (Shanghai), Yongzhao Zhang (Chengdu, China), Yezhou Wang (Shanghai) and Yi-Chao Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system executes a search to tune dimensions and distribution of meta-atoms in the passive acoustic metasurface with respect to a plurality of predefined input signal property sets of the acoustic signal to provide a tuned propagation profile of the meta-atoms in aggregate and forms the meta-atoms with the dimensions and the distribution. ...