US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 17 for "Ultrasonic transmission instrument and ultrasonic imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,737, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic transmission instrument and ultrasonic imaging device" was invented by Ryo Imai (Tokyo) and Tomohiko Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an ultrasonic transmission instrument that can uniformly transmit ultrasonic waves in each direction around the instrument, even when the instrument is made of a material through which the ultrasonic waves cannot be transmitted. In an ultrasonic transmission instrument according to the invention, a light transmission member is disposed at an emission end of an optical waveguide, and an outer peripheral ...