ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,779, issued on June 3, was assigned to Structural Integrity Associates Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Thick-film transducer arrays and control field" was invented by Robert Edward Chambers III (Bloomsburg, Pa.), Jason Kenneth Van Velsor (Julian, Pa.) and Owen Michael Malinowski (Gilbertsville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating and controlling a thick-film transducer array for steering and focusing ultrasonic waves within a substrate volume is provided. A ceramic film composition can be coated on a substrate volume in one or more layers. The ceramic film can be masked with a plastic sheet out of which an electrode p...