ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,178, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SecondWave Systems Inc. (State College, Pa.).

"Wearable focused phased array device for modulation" was invented by Anuj Bhardwaj (Austin, Texas), Jeffrey Heyman (Somerville, Mass.), Mikel Langron (State College, Pa.), Kashyap Patel (Hoboken, N.J.) and Michael Whetzel (Port Matilda, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for providing an acoustic wave to a target location include at least one transducer device and at least one beam-forming processor to cause the at least one transducer device to produce a first acoustic wave, the first acoustic wave includes a plurality of pulses having a p...