G01S 7/523
Details of pulse systems
Official title: Details of pulse systems {(short-range imaging G01S7/52017; methods or devices for transmitting, conducting or directing sound G10K11/18)}
G01S7/523 (Details of pulse systems) appears on 1,176 US grants and 1,110 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Self-cleaning ultrasonic sensors29 Sep 2026US 12,748,201 B2Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Device for controlling an ultrasonic transducer and ultrasonic measuring device having such a control device for the ultrasonic transducer15 Sep 2026US 12,736,647 B2Elmos Semiconductor AG
- Beamforming sonar system with improved sonar image functionality, and associated methods15 Sep 2026US 12,736,670 B2Navico, Inc.
- Drive device, ultrasonic sensor and vehicle11 Aug 2026US 12,704,617 B2Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Sound wave processing device and ultrasonic system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,618 B2
- Ultrasonic transducer, method for operating an ultrasonic transducer, and method for measuring distance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307106 A1
- Ultrasonic transducer, method for operating an ultrasonic transducer, and method for measuring distance8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309868 A1
- Signal-Adaptive and Time-Dependent Analog-to-Digital Conversion Rate in a Ranging Receiver1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303111 A1AyDeeKay LLC dba Indie Semiconductor
- Three-dimensional forward-looking sonar target recognition with machine learning3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259320 A1FarSounder, Inc.
- Ultrasound systems configured to generate different waveforms20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243893 A1Brad Peripheral Vascular, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Short distance ultrasonic distance meter425US 5,483,501 AThe Whitaker Corporation · 1996
- Automotive occupant sensor system and method of operation by sensor fusion226US 5,482,314 AAerojet-General Corporation · 1996
- Sonar Scanner210US 6,870,792 B2iRobot Corporation · 2005
- Acoustic ranging system151US 4,596,144 ACanadian Corporate Management Company Limited · 1986
- Ultrasonic pulse temperature determination method and apparatus149US 4,754,760 AAgency of Industrial Science and Technology · 1988