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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,216, 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, a backing member is provided. The backing member is composed of an auxiliary backing having a first thermal anisotropic property, and a main backing having a second thermal anisotropic property different from the first thermal anisotropic property. The auxiliary backing exhibits a heat...