ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,093, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Decision Sciences Medical Co. LLC (Poway, Calif.).
"Acoustic couplant devices and interface mediums" was invented by Zachary Staebler (Poway, Calif.) and Allan Wegner (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for use in tomographic ultrasound imaging, large aperture ultrasound imaging and therapeutic ultrasound that provide for coupling acoustic signal transducers to body structures for transmitting and receiving acoustic signals. In some aspects, an acoustic couplant device includes an acoustic coupling component including a sonolucent coupling med...