US Patent Issued to The Governors of the University of Alberta on Sept. 30 for "Transparent ultrasound transducers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,168, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

"Transparent ultrasound transducers" was invented by Roger Zemp (Edmonton, Canada), Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi (Edmonton, Canada), Zhenhao Li (Edmonton, Canada) and Christopher Ceroici (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent ultrasound transducer has a transparent substrate and a transparent transducer structure. The transducer structure has a bottom electrode, a top electrode electrically insulated from the bottom electrode, and an array of acoustically active elements within a separating layer between the top...