US Patent Issued to CLINISONIX on Aug. 26 for "Synthetic phase alternating row-column transducer array" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,706, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CLINISONIX INC. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Synthetic phase alternating row-column transducer array" was invented by Roger Zemp (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound array system has an array of transducer elements made from bias-sensitive material, each transducer element comprising at least a first sub-element and a second sub-element. A series of column electrodes is patterned in columns on a first surface of the array of transducer elements. A series of row electrodes is patterned in rows on a second surface of the array. The rows are at an angle relative to the columns, w...