US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 18 for "Compact photoacoustic sensor" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,782, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compact photoacoustic sensor" was invented by Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bernard Herrera Soukup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Camilo Perez Saaibi (Dublin, Calif.), Legardo Reyes (Fremont, Calif.), Ila Badge (San Jose, Calif.), Michelle Ma Thin Thin Htay Chan (San Francisco), Chin-Jen Tseng (Fremont, Calif.), Ali Lopez (Dublin, Calif.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.) and John Keith Schneider (Williamsville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed example...