US Patent Issued to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY on July 15 for "Simple bessel-like collimated sound beam generator" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,020, issued on July 15, was assigned to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Simple bessel-like collimated sound beam generator" was invented by Cristian Pantea (Los Alamos, N.M.), Dipen N. Sinha (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Vamshi Krishna Chillara (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of and system for producing a Bessel-like collimated sound beam frequencies below 1 MHz, and a device for sound (acoustic) imaging. A flat disk piezoelectric transducer having a large diameter/thickness ratio may be configured to exhibit radial vibration modes in the desired frequency range according to one or more parameters,...