ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,289, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Reducing or eliminating transducer reverberation" was invented by Marek Hustava (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Tomas Suchy (Brno, Czech Republic), Michal Navratil (Pustimer, Czech Republic) and Jiri Kutej (Brno, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An obstacle monitoring system includes a transducer that receives an ultrasonic echo from an obstacle and generates a signal based on the echo. The system further includes a controller coupled to the transducer that is calibrated based on a frequency response of the transducer and...