US Patent Issued to Exo Imaging on Oct. 20 for "Trenches for the reduction of cross-talk in mut arrays" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,551, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Trenches for the reduction of cross-talk in mut arrays" was invented by Brian Bircumshaw (Oakland, Calif.), Sandeep Akkaraju (Wellesley, Mass.), Drake Guenther (Hillsborough, Calif.), Haesung Kwon (Austin, Texas) and Anthony Brock (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are micromachined ultrasonic transducer (MUT) arrays with trenches, reducing cross-talk between MUTs to mitigate undesirable artifacts in ultrasound images, as well as methods of making the same."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/21...