ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,072, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ESAOTE S.p.A (Genoa, Italy).
"Ultrasound probe with improved thermal management" was invented by Francesco Bertocci (Santa Maria a Monte, Italy), Michele Bassani (Florence, Italy) and Ramona De Luca (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer assembly operable to transmit ultrasonic energy in a desired direction towards a zone adapted to be acoustically coupled to an object or area of interest is provided that has: a transducer layer; a backing layer disposed behind said transducer layer with respect to the desired direction; a back-matching layer disposed between the transduce...