US Patent Issued to TDK on March 17 for "Anchor configurations for an array of ultrasonic transducers" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,825, issued on March 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Anchor configurations for an array of ultrasonic transducers" was invented by Leonardo Baldasarre (Varese, Italy), Alessandro Colombo (Milan), Federica Confalonieri (Carimate, Italy) and Marco Travagliati (Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer array including a substrate, a membrane overlying the substrate, the membrane configured to allow movement at ultrasonic frequencies, and a plurality of anchors connected to the substrate and connected to the membrane. The membrane includes a piezoelectric layer, a plurality of first electrodes, and a p...