US Patent Issued to ACOUSTIIC on Nov. 11 for "Ultrasonic imaging and energy delivery device and method" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,947, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ACOUSTIIC INC. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Ultrasonic imaging and energy delivery device and method" was invented by Sean Taffler (Pacific Palisades, Calif.) and Paul Reynolds (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic device includes a driving circuit to provide drive power, a first transducer array to generate ultrasonic waves, the first transducer array being connected to receive power from the driving circuit, and a second transducer array to detect reflected or elicited ultrasonic waves incident on the device from a target and generate a signal based on those waves, the second tra...