ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,107, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MODULEUS (Tours, France).
"Ultrasound imaging device" was invented by Edgard Jeanne (Tours, France) and Lucie Ordronneau (Tours, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns an ultrasound imaging device (100) comprising an assembly (101) of ultrasound transducers, and an acoustic coupling layer (140) coating said assembly (101) of ultrasound transducers, wherein the acoustic coupling layer (140) is made of an activatable polymer material configured to have a first Young's modulus during a phase of acquisition of an ultrasound image and a second Young's modulus greater ...