US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on June 10 for "High acoustic-amplitude laser-induced plasma (LIP) sound generator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,542, issued on June 10, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"High acoustic-amplitude laser-induced plasma (LIP) sound generator" was invented by Bienvenido Melvin L. Pascoguin (San Diego), Brittany Lynn (San Diego) and Michael P. Ross (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-induced plasma (LIP) sound generator comprising: a laser beam and a first beam splitter configured to split the laser into a plurality of sub-laser beams such that each sub-laser beam creates a LIP at a respective focal point, wherein each focal point lies within an imaginary sphere having a ...