US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Nov. 3 for "High density PMUT array architecture for ultrasound imaging" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,551, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"High density PMUT array architecture for ultrasound imaging" was invented by Federico Vercesi (Milan), Giorgio Allegato (Monza, Italy), Tarek Afifi Afifi (Milan) and Sonia Costantini (Missaglia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PMUT includes a substrate being doped and having a plurality of conductive vias formed therein, each conductive via formed of a portion of the substrate extending completely from a back side of the substrate to a front side of the substrate and being encircled by an isolating structure that electrically isolates that p...