US Patent Issued to POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION on March 31 for "Transparent ultrasound sensor and method for manufacturing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,930, issued on March 31, was assigned to POSTECH ACADEMY-INDUSTRY FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Transparent ultrasound sensor and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Chulhong Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Hyung Ham Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea), Byullee Park (Gwangju, South Korea) and Jeongwoo Park (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a transparent ultrasonic sensor including a matching unit configured to perform optical impedance matching and formed of a transparent material, a piezoelectric layer positioned behind the matching unit and formed of a transparent material, a firs...