ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,341, issued on March 3, was assigned to SIM IP HXR LLC (Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.).
"Dynamic capping with virtual microphones" was invented by Brian Kappus (Campbell, Calif.) and Benjamin John Oliver Long (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimating the field strength from an ultrasonic phased array can be done by summing the contribution of each transducer to the point of interest. Since this contribution is already calculated when creating a converging spherical wave, it can be reused to add a virtual microphone to the system. By monitoring this microphone and moving it along with new focus points, a robust syste...