US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Sept. 8 for "High resolution imaging of pressurized water supply lines using high frequency acoustic waves" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,030, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong).

"High resolution imaging of pressurized water supply lines using high frequency acoustic waves" was invented by Saber Nasraoui (Hong Kong), Moez Louati (Hong Kong) and Mohamed Salah Ghidaoui (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient-based time reversal (TR) technique for acoustic imaging of a pressurized water supply pipeline is provided. Measured multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) imaging data at high frequency (10kH-100 kHz) are processed by an adapted Time Reversal-MUltiple SIgnal Classification (TR-MUSIC) algorithm to ...