US Patent Issued to VERMON on July 8 for "Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer and method of manufacturing the same" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,710, issued on July 8, was assigned to VERMON S.A. (Tours, France).

"Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Dominique Gross (Tours, France), Cyril Meynier (Tours, France) and Nicolas Senegond (Tours, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer including a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and a membrane attached to the upper electrode and positioned between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. Anchors are connect to the membrane and the lower electrode such that a cavity is defined between the lower electrode and the mem...