US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SonoSite on Oct. 6 for "Transducer module architecture for enhancing sensitivity of an ultrasound system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,300, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Transducer module architecture for enhancing sensitivity of an ultrasound system" was invented by Jimin Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Wei Li (Bothell, Wash.) and Andrew Lundberg (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing a transducer module architecture that enhances sensitivity of an ultrasound system are described. To enhance sensitivity while using a transducer element for transmission and reception, a transducer module's architecture provides operation-specific impedance matching. Operation-specific impedance ma...