US Patent Issued to Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Dec. 30 for "Method for target detection based on correlation analysis of spatial phase in an acoustic vortex" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,661, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Shanghai).

"Method for target detection based on correlation analysis of spatial phase in an acoustic vortex" was invented by Zhixiong Gong (Shanghai), Liwei Chen (Shanghai), Jun Fan (Shanghai), Bin Wang (Shanghai), Fulin Zhou (Shanghai), Kaiqi Zhao (Shanghai), Jie Li (Shanghai) and Yang Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for target detection based on spatial phase correlation analysis of acoustic vortices comprises the steps of generating a vortex-like excitation acoustic field, receiving the scattered acoustic pressure information after the i...