ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,790, issued on May 13, was assigned to Exo Imaging Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated ultrasonic transducers" was invented by Janusz Bryzek (Oakland, Calif.), Sandeep Akkaraju (Wellesley, Mass.), Yusuf Haque (Woodside, Calif.) and Joe Adam (Truckee, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are transducer assemblies and imaging devices comprising: a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) die including a plurality of piezoelectric elements; a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) die electrically coupled to the MEMS die by a first plurality of bumps and including at least one circuit for controlling the plurality of...