ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,286, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NOVOSOUND LTD (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
"Method for manufacturing an ultrasound transducer" was invented by David Hughes (Paisley, Great Britain) and David Hutson (Paisley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a plurality of piezoelectric ultrasound transducer elements, the method comprising providing or depositing a piezoelectric material on at least part of a surface of a sheet of substrate to form a layered member; and forming the one or more piezoelectric ultrasound transducer elements from the layered member."
The patent was filed on Nov. 10, 2017, under A...