ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,760, issued on July 21, was assigned to Shantou Institute of Ultrasonic Instruments Co. Ltd. (Shantou, China).

"Ultrasonic transducer matching layer material and preparation method thereof" was invented by Jinhao Lin (Shantou, China), Yanxiong Yu (Shantou, China), Jiacai Lin (Shantou, China), Jianwei Cai (Shantou, China) and Zewen Lin (Shantou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an ultrasonic transducer matching layer material and a preparation method thereof. The ultrasonic transducer matching layer material includes the following components in parts by weight: 15~34 parts of phenolic resin, 50~92 parts of alumina, 3...