US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Oct. 14 for "Compensation for an ultrasonic transducer with a variable compensation inductance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,904, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Compensation for an ultrasonic transducer with a variable compensation inductance" was invented by Philipp Maurer (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Bastian Hafner (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Thomas Frintz (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer having a piezoelectric element for use on a vehicle is disclosed. The transducer has a control and evaluation circuit for generating a control voltage for the piezoelectric element, which generates and emits an ultrasonic signal based ...