ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,466, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Linear array ultrasonic probe" was invented by Jinchi Wang (Shenzhen, China), Nan Chen (Shenzhen, China), Fei Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ming Tang (Shenzhen, China) and Xuedong Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a linear array ultrasonic probe, of which a first conductive layer is arranged on an outer wall of a backing body facing an array element layer by means of a gold spraying, electroplating, or chemical plating process, and/or a second conductive layer is arranged on a negative end by means of...