US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 1 for "Ultrasound probe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,215, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound probe" was invented by Takayuki Iwashita (Chiba, Japan), Hiroshi Hattori (Chiba, Japan), Tomohiro Shiraishi (Chiba, Japan), Hidetsugu Katsura (Chiba, Japan), Wataru Sawada (Chiba, Japan) and Sachio Shimada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Behind an electronic circuit, an auxiliary backing having a first thermal anisotropic property is provided. A main backing having a second thermal anisotropic property different from the first thermal anisotropic property is provided behind the auxiliary backing. In the main backing, each of two outer surfaces perp...