ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,044, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OtoNexus Medical Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Methods and systems for CMUT resonance determination" was invented by Mark A. Moehring (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a resonance frequency of a capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducer may include directing a broadband excitation waveform at an ultrasound transducer, wherein the excitation waveform comprises a frequency band which includes an anticipated resonance frequency of the ultrasound transducer; and measuring a ringdown characteristic of the ultrasound transducer."
The patent was filed on Dec...