ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,911, issued on April 22, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Ultrasound transducer and a system" was invented by Florian De Roose (Rumst, Belgium) and Kris Myny (Heusden-Zolder, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent disclosure relates to an ultrasound transducer including an array of ultrasound transducing elements, a plurality of transducer drive lines. The ultrasound transducer further includes an array of control circuits, wherein each individual control circuit includes a drive switch and a memory element, the drive switch comprising at least one thin-film transistor, the memory element being configured to st...