ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,400, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NOISELESS ACOUSTICS OY (Helsinki).

"Calibrator for acoustic cameras and other related applications" was invented by Kai Saksela (Kauniainen, Finland), Jonas Nyberg (Helsinki), Manu Niukkanen (Kauniainen, Finland), Oliver Merilaid (Helsinki) and Robert Albrecht (Porvoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external calibrating device (10) for a measurement device, which may be an acoustic camera. The calibrating device (10) includes a sound source (11) and a light source (12), which are preferably pointed to the same direction. This direction can be a horizontal direction, where the sources...