US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 2 for "Acoustic window with compound shape for ultrasound probe" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,878, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Acoustic window with compound shape for ultrasound probe" was invented by Michael J. Wight (Stoneham, Mass.), John Bench Caswell (Manchester, N.H.), Dino Francesco Cuscuna (Reading, Mass.), Kathryn Therese Jinks (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Michael Eugene Peszynski (Newburyport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound probe includes a housing configured to be grasped by a user, a transducer array coupled to the housing and configured to obtain ultrasound data, and an acoustic window disposed over the transducer array. The acoustic window co...