US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Acoustic tweezer" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,987, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Acoustic tweezer" was invented by Sungmin Han (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Min Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Inchan Youn (Seoul, South Korea) and Won Seok Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic tweezer is disclosed. The acoustic tweezer includes a function signal generator configured to generate a function signal for an ultrasound signal, a power amplifier configured to amplify the ultrasound signal based on the function signal, and an ultrasound transducer of a single channel in which a hologram thin film ...