US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on May 26 for "Acoustic lens, method for manufacturing same, ultrasound probe, and ultrasonographic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,135, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic lens, method for manufacturing same, ultrasound probe, and ultrasonographic device" was invented by Hajime Mori (Fuchu, Japan) and Kiyokazu Morita (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic lens of an ultrasound probe includes: a concave lens portion and a convex lens portion that are joined to each other. A propagation speed of an ultrasonic wave in the convex lens portion is slower than a propagation speed of an ultrasonic wave in the concave lens portion. An acoustic impedance of a lens portion on a side of a subject of the concave lens ...