US Patent Issued to SMTA on Sept. 15 for "Prediction of far-field radiated acoustic fields in a fluid using near-field acoustic measurements" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,396, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SMTA Ltd. (Surrey, Great Britain).

"Prediction of far-field radiated acoustic fields in a fluid using near-field acoustic measurements" was invented by Graham Alker (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting a far-field radiated acoustic field of an object in a fluid is provided. The method includes providing an array of acoustic sensors, wherein the array is a linear array, positioning the array in the fluid proximate to the object, radiating into the fluid, by the object, one or more acoustic signals, measuring, by the acoustic sensors, the acoustic signals...