US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Oct. 7 for "Dual bias micromachined ultrasonic transducers" (Delaware Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,571, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Dual bias micromachined ultrasonic transducers" was invented by Bruno Haider (Rehoboth Beach, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an ultrasound probe including a piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer including a first top electrode, a second top electrode, and a bottom electrode. The ultrasound probe further includes a transmitter/receiver configured to apply a single drive signal to the bottom electrode and a bias circuit configured to apply a first voltage bias to the first top electrode and to appl...