US Patent Issued to The University of Sussex on April 21 for "Acoustic wave manipulation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,187, issued on April 21, was assigned to The University of Sussex (Brighton, Great Britain).

"Acoustic wave manipulation" was invented by Sriram Subramanian (Brighton, Great Britain), Gianluca Memoli (Brighton, Great Britain), Bruce Drinkwater (Bristol, Great Britain), Mihai Caleap (Bristol, Great Britain) and Deepak Ranjan Sahoo (Swansea, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for manipulating an incident acoustic wave to generate an acoustic output is described wherein the device comprises a plurality of unit cells arranged into an array, at least some of said unit cells being configured to introduce time delays to ...