US Patent Issued to SILICON & SYSTEM on July 14 for "Acoustic element integrated circuit, probe, and diagnosis device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,825, issued on July 14, was assigned to SILICON & SYSTEM Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Acoustic element integrated circuit, probe, and diagnosis device" was invented by Yoshitaka Tadaki (Hanno, Japan), Kaoru Ogaya (Tokyo), Yoshiaki Takemoto (Tokyo), Hiroshi Kikuchi (Hidaka, Japan) and Shin-ichiro Umemura (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic element integrated circuit includes cells, being arrayed two-dimensionally on a same curved surface, wherein capacitive acoustic-elements having vibration membranes are allocated by unit number in each of the cells. Each of the cells encompasses an intra-cell circuit, which includes ...