US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Feb. 24 for "Array architecture and interconnection for transducers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,708, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Array architecture and interconnection for transducers" was invented by Wei Li (Bothell, Wash.) and Jimin Zhang (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a transducer includes embedding signal flexes and ground-return flexes inside a backing block. The method includes forming stack configurations with a height in elevation and a width perpendicular to the height. The forming includes: dicing a piezoelectric layer in the elevation into rows (separating the piezoelectric layer into portions); defining a beam pattern for the tr...