US Patent Issued to Washington University on March 3 for "Airy beam-enabled binary acoustic metasurfaces for underwater ultrasound beam manipulation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,007, issued on March 3, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Airy beam-enabled binary acoustic metasurfaces for underwater ultrasound beam manipulation" was invented by Zhongtao Hu (St. Louis) and Hong Chen (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a binary metasurface for producing an ultrasound Airy beam for underwater ultrasound applications is provided. The method includes generating an amplitude distribution of an Airy beam at a frequency, and converting the amplitude distribution into a binary phase profile. The method also includes generating a 3D printing design of a binary metasurface b...