US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on March 31 for "System, method, computer-accessible medium and apparatus for flexible two-dimensional ultrasound phased array" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,895, issued on March 31, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.

"System, method, computer-accessible medium and apparatus for flexible two-dimensional ultrasound phased array" was invented by Kenneth Shepard (Ossining, N.Y.), Jeffrey Elloian (New York) and Tiago Costa (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary ultrasound (US) apparatus, can include, for example, a flexible substrate, a plurality of ultrasound transducers coupled to the flexible substrate, and an integrated circuit(s) (IC(s)) mounted on the substrate to drive and control the transducer array, where the IC(s) can be con...