US Patent Issued to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE on May 19 for "Ultrasound transducer and method for making the same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,720, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Toronto).

"Ultrasound transducer and method for making the same" was invented by Kullervo Hynynen (Toronto) and Junho Song (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a multilayer lateral mode coupling method for phased array construction and transducer devices built accordingly. This disclosure describes and demonstrates that the electrical impedance of a phased array can be substantially reduced and readily controlled to be close to the source impedance. The fabrication process is relatively simple and inexpensive. In addition, the ele...