US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 11 for "Capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) devices and control methods" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,347, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) devices and control methods" was invented by Nico Maris Adriaan de Wild (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marc Godfriedus Marie Notten (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Antonia Cornelia van Rens (Nuenen, Netherlands), Franciscus Hendrikus van Heesch (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Mckee Dunn Poland (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system has a set of CMUT transducer devices and drive electronics for operating a selected device of the set. The drive electronics is shared betwe...