US Patent Issued to PERCEPTIVE SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 16 for "Acoustic signal material identification with nanotube couplant" (Alabama, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,605, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PERCEPTIVE SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Acoustic signal material identification with nanotube couplant" was invented by Lazar Bivolarsky (Cupertino, Calif.), Joel D. Burcham (Huntsville, Ala.), William Coleman (Tucson, Ariz.) and James M. Heim (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improved, non-intrusive material identification includes a vessel holding or transporting at least one quantity of a fluid. At least one acoustic transducer is positioned on an exterior surface of a sidewall of the vessel. At least one coupling layer is positioned betwee...