ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,874, issued on July 7, was assigned to OXSONICS Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Passive acoustic mapping using compressive sensing" was invented by Christian M. Coviello (Oxford, Great Britain), Calum J. Crake (Oxford, Great Britain) and Richard J. Kozick (Danville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive compression wave imaging system for locating cavitation bubbles, the system comprising a plurality of sensor elements (202b) arranged in an array and each arranged to produce an output signal, and processing means (204a, 204b) arranged to: define a sample period, and a sample space over which the signal can be sampled at each of ...