US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 15 for "Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and method for manufacturing backing material" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,271, issued on July 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and method for manufacturing backing material" was invented by Kiyokazu Morita (Kokubunji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic probe includes: a piezoelectric element; and a backing material including a matrix resin and thermally conductive particles, arranged on one direction side with respect to the piezoelectric element, wherein a ratio of thermal conductivity of the backing material in a thickness direction to the thermal conductivity of the backing material in a horizontal direction is 3 or more...