ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,636, issued on June 16, was assigned to SIM IP HXR LLC (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.).

"Acoustic transducer mounts" was invented by Jamie Chilles (Bristol, Great Britain), Rachael McPhillips (Bristol, Great Britain), Vijay Dontu (Bristol, Great Britain) and Dan Sweeney (Cardiff, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible transducer designed with high volume manufacturing in mind is described, the where flexible transducer mount can be panelized into a grid form and the transducers assembled into the grid using commercially available pick-and-place tools. Once assembled, the mounted transducers may be attached to circuit board...