ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,379, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Methods for measuring times-of-flight of ultrasound echo signals" was invented by Yinjie Chen (Hangzhou, China), Weiguo Zhao (Hangzhou, China), Keshu Qian (Hangzhou, China), Hongli Pan (Hangzhou, China) and Cheng Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for measuring time-of-flight of an ultrasound echo signal, and relate to the field of measurement technology. The method comprising: capturing an echo signal; obtaining a reconstructed echo signal by performing denoising and reconstruction on the echo signal using an ...