US Patent Issued to BYK GARDNER on May 13 for "High frequency ultrasonic transducer and method of fabrication" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,361, issued on May 13, was assigned to BYK GARDNER GMBH (Wesel, Germany).

"High frequency ultrasonic transducer and method of fabrication" was invented by James M Chwalek (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Todd A Jackson (Walworth, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer that includes a delay line, a piezoelectric element, and a metal conductive layer between the delay line and the piezoelectric element. The delay line and the piezoelectric element are acoustically joined with an atomic diffusion bond to facilitate coupling ultrasonic waves from the piezoelectric element into the delay line or from the delay line into the pie...