ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,643, issued on July 29, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Coded ultrasonic sensing with staggered bursts" was invented by Lei Ding (Plano, Texas), Srinath Mathur Ramaswamy (Murphy, Texas), Anand Gopalan (Plano, Texas), Vaibhav Garg (Plano, Texas) and Anand Ganesh Dabak (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasonic ranging systems and methods that use coding to distinguish emitted bursts from multiple transducers temporally stagger the bursts emitted from the transducers. The stagger delay between bursts from different transducers in a sensing frame can be randomized between different sensing frames to preven...