ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,642, issued on March 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).
"Ultrasound transducer with distributed cantilevers" was invented by Seow Yuen Yee (Mountain View, Calif.), Vladimir Petkov (San Jose, Calif.), Matthias Boecker (Reutlingen, Germany), Timo Schary (Aichtal, Germany) and Reinhold Roedel (Reutlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound transducer of a vehicle system includes a support member that attaches to and connects to the bottom portion of a membrane of the ultrasound transducer and supports the membrane, wherein the support member includes one or more cantilevers with a first end attaching to ...