ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,998, issued on June 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Ultrasonic transducer" was invented by Klaus Elian (Alteglofsheim, Germany), Matthias Eberl (Taufkirchen, Germany), Horst Theuss (Wenzenbach, Germany), Rainer Markus Schaller (Aichen, Germany) and Fabian Merbeler (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer includes at least one ultrasonic transducer element, a semiconductor chip that includes the ultrasonic transducer element, and a housing. The semiconductor chip is arranged in the housing. The semiconductor chip is embedded in a dimensionally stable encapsulation, wherein a c...