US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA on May 12 for "Contactless CMUT operation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,674, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, Canada).

"Contactless CMUT operation" was invented by Edmond Cretu (Vancouver, Canada), Carlos D. Gerardo (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Rohling (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for the contactless operation of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) and CMUT arrays. Contactless operations refers to both the contactless transfer of energy and information between the transducer(s) and the controlling subsystem. A system includes a CMUT, a first alternating current voltage source, a firs...