US Patent Issued to Maui Imaging on July 8 for "Concave ultrasound transducers and 3D arrays" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,101, issued on July 8, was assigned to Maui Imaging Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Concave ultrasound transducers and 3D arrays" was invented by David M. Smith (Lodi, Calif.), Donald F. Specht (Los Altos, Calif.), Linda V. Cabrera (Cypress, Calif.), Kenneth D. Brewer (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David J. Specht (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Multiple Aperture Ultrasound Imaging (MAUI) probe or transducer is uniquely capable of simultaneous imaging of a region of interest from separate apertures of ultrasound arrays. Some embodiments provide systems and methods for designing, building and using ultrasound probes having continuous...