MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547096020 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, on Oct. 6, for 'receiver arrays for photoacoustic devices.'
Inventor(s) include Perez Saaibi, Camilo; Panchawagh, Hrishikesh Vijaykumar; Agrawal, Sumit; and Djordjev, Kostadin Dimitrov.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Some disclosed examples involve controlling, by a control system, a light source system to provide light to a target object on an outer surface of a platen and receiving, by the control system, ultrasonic receiver signals from each of a plurality of ultrasonic receiver elements in an array of ultrasonic receiver elements. The ultrasonic receiver signals may correspond to ultrasonic waves generated by the target object responsive to the light from the light source system. Some disclosed examples involve applying, by the control system, a receiver-side beamforming process to the ultrasonic receiver signals, to produce a beamformed ultrasonic receiver image and detecting, by the control system, a blood vessel within the targe object based, at least in part, on the beamformed ultrasonic receiver image."
The patent application was internationally filed on Apr. 10, 2024, under International application No.PCT/US2024/023914.
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