ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,111, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Decision Sciences International Corp. (Poway, Calif.).

"Spread spectrum coded waveforms in ultrasound diagnostics" was invented by Allan Wegner (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for ultrasound diagnostics using spread spectrum, coherent, frequency- and/or phase-coded waveforms. In one aspect, a method includes synthesizing individual orthogonal coded waveforms to form a composite waveform for transmission toward a biological material of interest, in which the synthesized individual orthogonal coded waveforms correspond to distinct fre...