US Patent Issued to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE on Oct. 27 for "Quiet flight deck communication using ultrasonic phased array" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,298, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE Corp. (Savannah, Ga.).

"Quiet flight deck communication using ultrasonic phased array" was invented by Scott Bohanan (Savannah, Ga.), Tongan Wang (Savannah, Ga.) and Jim Jordan (Savannah, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pilot communication system employs an acoustic transducer disposed on the flight deck and positioned to emit sound waves in the direction of the at least one pilot seating location. A modulator circuit is coupled to receive an audio signal from the avionics communication system and is also coupled to drive the acoustic transducer. The modulator circui...