US Patent Issued to Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC) on June 3 for "Actuator for ultrasound transducer" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,251, issued on June 3, was assigned to Centre for Imaging Technology Commercialization (CIMTEC) (London, Canada).

"Actuator for ultrasound transducer" was invented by Aaron Fenster (London, Canada) and Kevin Barker (Lucan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator for moving an ultrasound transducer has a main body configured to be positioned adjacent to a target region of interest to be examined; and, a motor mounted on the main body. The motor is configured to have an ultrasound transducer connected thereto to simultaneously translate and rotate the ultrasound transducer to perform a compound scan of the target region of int...