US Patent Issued to BFLY Operations on Aug. 4 for "Electrical contact arrangement for microfabricated ultrasonic transducer" (Connecticut, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,918, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Electrical contact arrangement for microfabricated ultrasonic transducer" was invented by Jonathan M. Rothberg (Guilford, Conn.), Susan A. Alie (Stoneham, Mass.), Jaime Scott Zahorian (Guilford, Conn.), Paul Francis Cristman (New Haven, Conn.) and Keith G. Fife (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound-on-a-chip device has an ultrasonic transducer substrate with plurality of transducer cells, and an electrical substrate. For each transducer cell, one or more conductive bond connections are disposed between the ultrasonic transducer ...