ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,297, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Ultrasonic probe" was invented by Masaaki Sudo (Otawara, Japan), Takashi Takeuchi (Otawara, Japan) and Hiroyuki Shikata (Nasushiobara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic probe includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers, a first substrate, and a plurality of electronic circuit modules. The plurality of ultrasonic transducers are equally spaced and aligned at least in one direction. The first substrate to which the ultrasonic transducers are coupled. The plurality of electronic circuit modules provided ...