US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Sept. 8 for "Planar linear array for ultrasound" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,858, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Planar linear array for ultrasound" was invented by Guofeng Pang (Bothell, Wash.), Oleg Ivanytskyy (Bothell, Wash.) and Robert Kolaja (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound transducer includes a planar linear array stack. The stack includes a lens layer comprising an acoustic lens and a lens support structure, where a portion of the acoustic lens is secured to the lens support structure. The stack also includes a piezoelectric layer comprising a non-metallic frame and a piezoelectric material, the non-metallic frame surrounding the...