US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 24 for "Body cavity insertion-type ultrasound probe and method of manufacturing acoustic matching layer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,059, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Body cavity insertion-type ultrasound probe and method of manufacturing acoustic matching layer" was invented by Hiroki Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a body cavity insertion-type ultrasound probe, acoustic matching between each transducer and a living body is improved. A film member (FPC substrate) is configured with a base film and a conductor layer. The conductor layer includes a signal pattern, a ground pattern, and a plurality of acoustic element arrays. An acoustic matching layer is provided between each transducer and the base film. The acoustic ...