US Patent Issued to Exo Imaging on Jan. 27 for "Dual and multiple membrane micromachined ultrasound transducers" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,711, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dual and multiple membrane micromachined ultrasound transducers" was invented by Haesung Kwon (Austin, Texas), Brian Bircumshaw (Orinda, Calif.) and Sandeep Akkaraju (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are micromachined ultrasonic transducers as well as imaging devices and assemblies comprising micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs). The MUTs described herein have a plurality of membranes so as to improve acoustic power at higher frequencies."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2, 2022, under Application No. 17/929,521.

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