US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 1 for "Transducer arrays with air kerfs for intraluminal imaging" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,209, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Transducer arrays with air kerfs for intraluminal imaging" was invented by Wojtek Sudol (Andover, Mass.), Anjali Saini (Sudbury, Mass.), Junho Song (North Andover, Mass.), Hyunggyun Lee (Woburn, Mass.) and Mike Lavy (Stoneham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging assembly for an intraluminal device is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging assembly includes: an array of ultrasound transducer elements spaced apart by air kerfs; a plurality of buffer elements surrounding the array of ultrasound transducer elements, wherein the plurali...