US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 18 for "Receiver arrays for photoacoustic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,272, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Receiver arrays for photoacoustic devices" was invented by Camilo Perez Saaibi (Dublin, Calif.), Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed examples involve controlling, by a control system, a light source system to provide light to a target object on an outer surface of a platen and receiving, by the control system, ultrasonic receiver signals from each of a plurality of ultrasonic receiver elements in an array of ultrasonic re...