US Patent Issued to BFLY Operations on March 11 for "Capacitive Micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) having non-uniform pedestals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,348, issued on March 11, was assigned to BFLY Operations Inc (Burlington, Mass.).

"Capacitive Micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) having non-uniform pedestals" was invented by Lingyun Miao (Fremont, Calif.) and Sarp Satir (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound device is described. The ultrasound device comprises a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT). The CMUT comprises a membrane, a substrate, a cavity disposed between the membrane and the substrate, wherein the cavity comprises a bottom surface adjacent to the substrate, and non-uniform pedestals protruding from the bottom surface of ...