US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Sept. 1 for "Ultrasound phased array on flexible CMOS and methods for fabricating hereof" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,601, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Ultrasound phased array on flexible CMOS and methods for fabricating hereof" was invented by Kenneth L. Shepard (Ossining, N.Y.), Tiago Costa (New York), Kevin Tien (New York) and Chen Shi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound phased array integrated in flexible CMOS technology is provided. The CMOS IC chip is fabricated through various chip-thinning techniques, resulting in mechanical flexibility, robustness, and minimized mechanical loading for the piezoelectric transducers. The ultrasound phased array C...