US Patent Issued to ULTRAHAPTICS IP on July 29 for "Blocking plate structure for improved acoustic transmission efficiency" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,577, issued on July 29, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP LTD (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Blocking plate structure for improved acoustic transmission efficiency" was invented by Justin Rorke Buckland (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam John Robert Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain), Amaru Daniel Araya-Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Benjamin John Oliver Long (Bristol, Great Britain) and Brian Kappus (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic matching structure is used to increase the power radiated from a transducing element with a higher impedance into a surrounding acoustic medium with a lower acoustic impedan...