ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,715, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONOGEN MEDICAL INC. (Chevy Chase, Md.).

"Acoustical applications of modulation beamforming technology" was invented by Alan Winder (Westport, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a spatial distribution of acoustic transmitting frequencies by a time modulated array (TMA) of transducers includes generating, by a tapped delay line, a plurality of pulsed sampling signals, wherein each pulsed sampling signal includes a series of frequency harmonics and successive signals of the plurality of pulsed sampling signals are separated by a predetermined delay time; mixing each of t...