Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transmit generator for controlling a multilevel pulser of an ultrasound device, and related methods and apparatus
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Application No.: US15087962Application Date: 2016-03-31
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Publication No.: US11154279B2Publication Date: 2021-10-26
- Inventor: Liewei Bao , Kailiang Chen , Tyler S. Ralston , Nevada J. Sanchez
- Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CT Guilford
- Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
- Current Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CT Guilford
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Main IPC: A61B8/00
- IPC: A61B8/00 ; G01S7/52 ; B06B1/02 ; G01S15/89 ; G10K11/34

Abstract:
Circuitry for ultrasound devices is described. A multi-level pulser is described, which can support time-domain and spatial apodization. The multi-level pulser may be controlled through a software-defined waveform generator. In response to the execution of a computer code, the waveform generator may access master segments from a memory, and generate a stream of packets directed to pulsing circuits. The stream of packets may be serialized. A plurality of decoding circuits may modulate the streams of packets to obtain spatial apodization.
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