US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on April 29 for "Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer with contoured electrode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,780, issued on April 29, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer with contoured electrode" was invented by Bo Ma (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kamyar Firouzi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jose Joseph (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to driving a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) with a pulse train of unipolar pulses. The CMUT may be electrically excited with a pulse train of unipolar pulses such that the CMUT operates in a continuous...