ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,326, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound probe and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Takatoshi Hase (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Shintate (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe includes: a plurality of vibrators that are arranged in a left-right direction; a support portion that supports a lower surface of the vibrator; an acoustic matching portion; and an acoustic lens, in which the support portion includes a dematching layer and a backing layer, and the dematching layer is in contact with only one of both end surfaces of the v...