US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on May 13 for "System and method for measuring pressure using ultrasound" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,275, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for measuring pressure using ultrasound" was invented by Guelay Bilen-Rosas (Middleton, Wis.), Humberto Gerardo Rosas (Middleton, Wis.), Quinton White Guerrero (Madison, Wis.) and Irene May Lin Ong (Fitchburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pressure and pressure or displacement variations are measured in a media, such as a fluid (e.g., air, other gases, or other liquid fluids), using ultrasound. The pressure may be sound pressure (e.g., acoustic pressure), pseudo-sound pressure (e.g., hydrodynamic pressure), displaceme...