US Patent Issued to INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS on Nov. 11 for "Divergent lens array" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,330, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE) (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS (Paris).

"Divergent lens array" was invented by Clement Papadacci (Paris), Mickael Tanter (Paris), Hugues Favre (Paris) and Mathieu Pernot (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While 3D ultrasound imaging is becoming a powerful tool in medical field, the main drawback is the difficulty to image large 3D volume, mainly related to the dimensions of the 2D array of transducers. In order to n...