US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on Aug. 11 for "Sensors and methods for generating spatially encoded acoustic fields by sound-emitting apertures with spatially varying frequency and bandwidth" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,005, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Sensors and methods for generating spatially encoded acoustic fields by sound-emitting apertures with spatially varying frequency and bandwidth" was invented by Steffen Tretbar (St. Ingbert, Germany), Marc Fournelle (Saarbrucken, Germany) and Daniel Schmitt (Ensdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic transducer for generating and/or receiving a spatially structured acoustic field includes a total aperture which generates and/or receives the acoustic field. The total aperture includes a plurality of ...