US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Method and system for ultrasound time-of-flight measurement" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,218, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method and system for ultrasound time-of-flight measurement" was invented by Yuming Zhu (Plano, Texas), Srinath Ramaswamy (Murphy, Texas), Domingo Garcia (Plano, Texas) and Sujeet Milind Patole (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer system with transducer and circuitry for applying a pulse train at a single frequency to excite the transducer. The transducer is operable to receive an echo waveform in response to the pulse train. The system also comprises circuitry for determining a time of flight as between a first reference time associat...