US Patent Issued to Orchard Ultrasound Innovation on Dec. 30 for "Medical device with CMUT array and solid state cooling, and associated methods and systems" (American, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,448, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Orchard Ultrasound Innovation LLC (Stamford, Conn.).

"Medical device with CMUT array and solid state cooling, and associated methods and systems" was invented by Arif Sanli Ergun (Ankara, Turkey), Andre Khoury (Purchase, N.Y.), Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John N. Irwin III (Greenwich, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array configured to emit ultrasound to target tissue, and at least one thermoelectric cooler mechanically coupled with the CMUT array and configured to cool non-target tissue hea...