US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 12 for "Stretchable ultrasonic transducer devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,222, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Stretchable ultrasonic transducer devices" was invented by Sheng Xu (La Jolla, Calif.), Lin Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.), Chonghe Wang (La Jolla, Calif.), Hongjie Hu (La Jolla, Calif.) and Xiaoshi Li (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformable piezoelectric transducer array for performing ultrasound or the like includes a silicone elastomer substrate and a silicone elastomer superstrate. A plurality of piezoelectric transducer elements are disposed between the substrate and superstrate. A first electrical interconnec...