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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2018
Applicant:
Butterfly Network, Inc., Guilford, CT (US);
Inventors:
Amandeep Singh, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Kailiang Chen, Branford, CT (US);
Tyler S. Ralston, Clinton, CT (US);
Assignee:
Butterfly Network, Inc., Guilford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/53 (2006.01); G01S 7/524 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); B06B 1/02 (2006.01); H03M 3/00 (2006.01); B06B 1/06 (2006.01); H03M 1/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B06B 1/0215 (2013.01); G01S 7/524 (2013.01); G01S 7/53 (2013.01); G01S 15/89 (2013.01); G01S 15/8915 (2013.01); H03M 3/322 (2013.01); B06B 1/0292 (2013.01); B06B 1/06 (2013.01); H03M 1/742 (2013.01); H03M 3/464 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound device is describe in which analog ultrasonic transducer output signal are directly converted to digital signals. The ultrasound device includes microfabricated ultrasonic transducers directly coupled to a sigma delta analog-to-digital converter in some instances. The direct digital conversion may allow for omission of undesirable analog processing stages in the ultrasound circuitry chain. In some situations, the ADC may be integrated on the same substrate as the ultrasound transducer.