US Patent Issued to Exo Imaging on May 26 for "Imaging devices having piezoelectric transceivers with harmonic characteristics" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,680, issued on May 26, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Imaging devices having piezoelectric transceivers with harmonic characteristics" 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: "A micromachined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) which comprises a first piezoelectric layer and a second piezoelectric layer. The first piezoelectric layer is disposed between a first electrode and a second electrode. The second piezoelectric layer is disposed between the second electrode and a third electrode. At least the first ele...