ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,580, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cereus Ultrasonics Ltd. (Aberdeen, Great Britain).

"Acoustic analysis of remote structures within a medium" was invented by Mark Tanner (Wimborne, Great Britain), Paul Easton (Portland, Great Britain) and Max Hadley (Lyndhurst, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for analyzing structures within a medium. The device may include: at least one acoustic signal transmitter and acoustic signal receiver configured to output an acoustic signal and to receive an acoustic signal; an analyzer configured to analyze received acoustic data; a signal modifier configured to modify ...