ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,831, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fluke Corp. (Everett, Wash.).

"Portable acoustic imaging tool with scanning and analysis capability" was invented by Michael D. Stuart (Issaquah, Wash.) and Dileepa Prabhakar (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld acoustic imaging tool and method of imaging acoustic signals includes receiving acoustic signals from a scene, identifying a subset of the acoustic signals based on a predetermined condition of an acoustic parameter of the acoustic signals, and generating a display image using electromagnetic image data representative of electromagnetic radiation from the scene. T...