ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,555, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Suncall Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Ultrasonic transducer and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Satoru Takasugi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer of this invention includes a supporting plate with concave portions and waveguides opened to first and second surfaces, respectively, a flexible resin film fixed to the supporting plate, and piezoelectric elements fixed to the flexible resin film so that their center regions overlap with the corresponding concave portions and their peripheral regions overlap with the supporting plate in a plan view, a vi...