US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 6 for "Photoacoustic sensor using micromachined ultrasonic transducers" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,631, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Photoacoustic sensor using micromachined ultrasonic transducers" was invented by Bernard Herrera Soukup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hrishikesh Vijaykumar Panchawagh (Cupertino, Calif.), Sumit Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), John Keith Schneider (Williamsville, N.Y.) and Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed examples pertain to a photoacoustic apparatus that can include a substrate such as a semiconductor substrate, a light source system that includes one or more light-emitting elements on t...