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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean-Yves Chapelon, Villeurbanne, FR;
Dominique Cathignol, Genas, FR;
Emmanuel Blanc, St.-Genis-Laval, FR;
Assignee:
Technomed Medical Systems, Vaux En Velin, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
601-2 ; 601-3 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to the use of Dirac-type autocorrelation function signals for powering multielements ultrasonic transducers used in therapeutic application in order to minimize or eliminate secondary focusing. The Dirac-type autocorrelation function signals may be generated by a pseudo random binary code.