ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,544, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VERMON SA (Tours, France).
"CMUT transducer" 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: "The present disclosure relates to a CMUT transducer (200) comprising: a substrate (101) coated with a dielectric layer (103); a cavity (105) formed in the dielectric layer (103); a conductive or semiconductor membrane (107) suspended above the cavity (105); and a dielectric coating (104) arranged on an upper surface of the substrate (101) at the bottom of the cavity or on a lower surface of the membrane a...