US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Dec. 23 for "Trans-skull focused ultrasound using acoustic hologram and heterogenous angular spectrum approach, and hologram registration" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,558, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Trans-skull focused ultrasound using acoustic hologram and heterogenous angular spectrum approach, and hologram registration" was invented by Costas Arvanitis (Atlanta) and Pradosh Pritam Dash (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for producing and registration of an acoustic holographic lens for trans-skull focused ultrasound (FUS). In one example embodiment, the lens is produced using a heterogenous angular spectrum approach that performs computations in the frequency domain, enabling pressure fields creat...