US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 24 for "Lamb wave mode-conversion based biological stimulation device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,686, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Lamb wave mode-conversion based biological stimulation device" was invented by Jeong Nyeon Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kamyar Firouzi (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Loynaz Prieto (Palo Alto, Calif.), Merritt C. Maduke (Los Altos, Calif.) and Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasonic excitation to a sample is provided with an apparatus including: a cylindrical ultrasonic transducer, and a plate disposed on an end of the cylindrical ultrasonic transducer. The ultrasonic transducer...