US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "Method of operating electro-acoustic transducers, corresponding circuit and device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,536, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method of operating electro-acoustic transducers, corresponding circuit and device" was invented by Francesca Carminati (Agrate Brianza, Italy), Marco Passoni (Cornate d'Adda, Italy), Beatrice Rossi (Milan), Diego Carrera (Lodi, Italy) and Pasqualina Fragneto (Burago di Molgora, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a PMUT electro-acoustical transducer, the method comprising: applying over an excitation interval to the transducer an excitation signal which is configured to emit corresponding ultrasound pulses towards a s...