US Patent Issued to X-Wave Innovations on May 6 for "Radiation and high-temperature tolerant piezoelectric ultrasonic contact transducer with mounting assembly" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,837, issued on May 6, was assigned to X-Wave Innovations Inc..

"Radiation and high-temperature tolerant piezoelectric ultrasonic contact transducer with mounting assembly" was invented by Dan Xiang (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Uday Singh (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments disclose an ultrasonic transducer that can require a piezoelectric element attached to the transducer to be constantly under high pressure, and this required pressure can be provided and maintained by the transducer's design at all temperatures during its operation. The exemplary ultrasonic transducer can eliminate a failure of the bond bet...