ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,554, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MODULEUS (Tours, France).
"Ultrasound imaging device" was invented by Edgard Jeanne (Tours, France), Lucie Ordronneau (Tours, France) and Mathieu Roy (Tours, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns an ultrasound imaging device (100) comprising an assembly (101) of ultrasound transducers, an acoustic coupling layer (140) coating said assembly (101) of ultrasound transducers, and a heating device (150) adapted to heating an object to be imaged arranged on the acoustic coupling layer (140) during a phase of acquisition of an ultrasound image."
The patent was filed o...