ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,001, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).
"Ultrasonic transducer array device" was invented by Michael Kraft (Raeren, Germany), Robert Puers (Blanden, Belgium) and Sina Sadeghpour Shamsabadi (Lubbeek, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer multilayer structure, including: a semiconductor layer stack defining a diode, a micro-machined ultrasonic transducer, MUT, layer stack being electrically in series with said diode and comprising a first electrically conductive layer disposed at least partly on the diode, a cavity extending over a region comprising at least a po...