US Patent Issued to ABLIC on Nov. 4 for "Ultrasonic device, semiconductor device, and method of controlling ultrasonic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,327, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ABLIC INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Ultrasonic device, semiconductor device, and method of controlling ultrasonic device" was invented by Naoto Adachi (Yokohama, Japan), Naoto Yoneda (Yokohama, Japan) and Masaya Tamamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic device includes: oscillation elements to generate ultrasonic waves toward a subject, and generate voltages according to ultrasonic waves reflected by the subject; a switch to select voltages generated by a predetermined number of oscillation elements, from among the generated voltages; and semiconductor devices. Each semicond...