US Patent Issued to Otsuka Medical Devices on Sept. 23 for "Selectively insulated ultrasound transducers" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,662, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Selectively insulated ultrasound transducers" was invented by Shruthi R. Thirumalai (Fremont, Calif.), Lewis J. Thomas III (Comitan, Mexico) and Jaime Merino (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are ultrasound transducers that are selectively insulated to thereby enable the transducers to be exposed to an electrically conductive fluid without causing a short circuit between electrodes of the transducers. Such a transducer includes a piezoelectric transducer body having a first surface and a second surface that are spa...