ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,817, issued on March 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound probe and ultrasound endoscope" was invented by Yoshiharu Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe includes: an ultrasound transducer array in which a plurality of ultrasound transducers configured to transmit and receive ultrasound are arrayed; a backing layer provided on a proximal end surface of the ultrasound transducer array; and a piezoelectric element, provided on a proximal end surface of the backing layer, whose direction of polarization is opposite to a direction of polarization of the plurality of ultrasound transducers."
The ...