ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,050, issued on March 25, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Differential receive at an ultrasonic transducer" was invented by Leonardo Baldasarre (Varese, Italy), Alessandro Colombo (Milan), Federica Confalonieri (Carimate, Italy) and Marco Travagliati (Pavia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer device including a substrate, an edge support structure connected to the substrate, and a membrane connected to the edge support structure such that a cavity is defined between the membrane and the substrate, the membrane configured to allow movement at ultrasonic frequencies. The membrane includes a structural lay...