US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 11 for "Deformable sensor with deformation feedback, and system and method using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,379, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Deformable sensor with deformation feedback, and system and method using the same" was invented by Julio Agustin Isla Garcia (Irvine, Calif.), Rendle Lamarr Myles Jr. (Covina, Calif.), Xiaolong Li (Irvine, Calif.), Alexander H. Siemons (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Blake W. Axelrod (Sierra Madre, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomedical sensor is provided that includes a deformable body panel, a first ultrasonic transducer, a second ultrasonic transducer, and a displacement sensor. The first and second ultrasonic transducers are attached t...