ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,002, issued on June 2, was assigned to SILICON & SYSTEM Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Ultrasonic receiver and ultrasonic observation device" was invented by Shin-ichiro Umemura (Miyagi, Japan), Yoshitaka Tadaki (Saitama, Japan), Yoshiaki Takemoto (Tokyo) and Kaoru Ogaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic receiver encompasses a resin horn, a piezoelectric element provided at a tip of the resin horn exposed to outside, a stealth amplifier disposed at a predetermined minimum distance from the piezoelectric element, embedded in the resin horn and arranged in a behind space to which a shape of the piezoelectric element is project...