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11.发明授权公开(公告)号：US12203894B2
公开(公告)日：2025-01-21
申请号：US18507509
申请日：2023-11-13
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Chao Chen , Youn-Jae Kook , Jihee Lee , Kailiang Chen , Leung Kin Chiu , Joseph Lutsky , Nevada J. Sanchez , Sebastian Schaetz , Hamid Soleimani
IPC: G01N29/24 , A61B8/00 , B06B1/02 , G01N29/30 , G01S7/52 , G01S15/89 , H03F1/32 , H03F3/45 , H03K5/24 , H03M3/00
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to built-in self-testing (BIST) of circuitry (e.g., a pulser or receive circuitry) and/or transducers in an ultrasound device. A BIST circuit may include a transconductance amplifier coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, a capacitor network coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, and/or a current source couplable to the input terminal of receive circuitry to which a transducer is also couplable. The collapse voltages of transducers may be characterized using BIST circuitry, and a bias voltage may be applied to the membranes of the transducers based at least in part on their collapse voltages. The capacitances of transducers may also be measured using BIST circuitry and a notification may be generated based on the sets of measurements.
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12.发明公开公开(公告)号：US20240159714A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-16
申请号：US18507509
申请日：2023-11-13
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Chao Chen , Youn-Jae Kook , Jihee Lee , Kailiang Chen , Leung Kin Chiu , Joseph Lutsky , Nevada J. Sanchez , Sebastian Schaetz , Hamid Soleimani
CPC classification number: G01N29/2406 , A61B8/58 , G01N29/30 , G01S7/5205 , H03F1/3211 , H03F3/45475 , H03K5/24 , H03M3/458 , B06B1/0292
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to built-in self-testing (BIST) of circuitry (e.g., a pulser or receive circuitry) and/or transducers in an ultrasound device. A BIST circuit may include a transconductance amplifier coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, a capacitor network coupled between a pulser and receive circuitry, and/or a current source couplable to the input terminal of receive circuitry to which a transducer is also couplable. The collapse voltages of transducers may be characterized using BIST circuitry, and a bias voltage may be applied to the membranes of the transducers based at least in part on their collapse voltages. The capacitances of transducers may also be measured using BIST circuitry and a notification may be generated based on the sets of measurements.
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公开(公告)号：US20240069181A1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-29
申请号：US18503416
申请日：2023-11-07
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Nevada J. Sanchez , Liewei Bao , Tyler S. Ralston
CPC classification number: G01S7/52025 , A61B8/4477 , A61B8/4494 , G01S7/52034 , G01S7/5208 , G01S15/8915
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein related to controlling, using control circuitry, modulation circuitry to modulate and delay first ultrasound data generated by first ultrasound transducers positioned at a first azimuthal position of an ultrasound transducer array of an ultrasound device and second ultrasound data generated by second ultrasound transducers positioned at a second azimuthal position of the ultrasound transducer array of the ultrasound device, such that the first ultrasound data is delayed by a first delay amount and the second ultrasound data is delayed by a second delay amount that is different from the first delay amount. The first and second ultrasound data received from the modulation circuitry may be filtered and summed. The ultrasound transducer array, the control circuitry, the modulation circuitry, the filtering circuitry, and the summing circuitry may be integrated onto a semiconductor chip or one or more semiconductor chips packaged together.
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公开(公告)号：US11857368B2
公开(公告)日：2024-01-02
申请号：US18104063
申请日：2023-01-31
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Susan A. Alie , Nevada J. Sanchez , Tyler S. Ralston , Christopher Thomas McNulty , Jaime Scott Zahorian , Paul Francis Cristman , Matthew de Jonge , Keith G. Fife
CPC classification number: A61B8/4477 , A61B8/0883 , A61B8/0891 , A61B8/12 , A61B8/4236 , A61B8/4427 , A61B8/4444 , A61B8/4472 , A61B8/4494 , A61B8/465 , A61B8/467 , A61B8/483 , A61B8/485 , A61B8/488 , A61B8/5207 , A61B8/54 , A61B8/56 , B06B1/0292 , B06B1/0622
Abstract: A processing device is coupled to a single ultrasound device having a single array of capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUTs). The processing device generates a graphical user interface (GUI) having user selectable GUI menu options corresponding to respective ultrasound operating modes for the single ultrasound device having the single ultrasound transducer array. The user-selectable GUI menu options include GUI menu options labeled as representing an ultrasound operating mode for musculoskeletal imaging, breast imaging, carotid imaging, vascular imaging, and abdominal imaging, respectively. The processing device further receives, via the GUI, user input indicating selection of one of the ultrasound operating modes, and in response to receiving the user input, provides an indication to the single ultrasound device having the single array of CMUTs to operate in the selected ultrasound operating mode.
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公开(公告)号：US11833542B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-05
申请号：US16562821
申请日：2019-09-06
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Keith G. Fife , Tyler S. Ralston , Gregory L. Charvat , Nevada J. Sanchez
CPC classification number: B06B1/02 , B06B1/0292 , B81B3/0021 , B81B7/0077 , B81C1/00158 , G10K9/12 , G10K11/18 , B81B2203/0127 , B81B2203/0315 , B81B2207/015 , B81C2201/013 , B81C2203/0118 , B81C2203/0735 , B81C2203/0771
Abstract: CMOS Ultrasonic Transducers and processes for making such devices are described. The processes may include forming cavities on a first wafer and bonding the first wafer to a second wafer. The second wafer may be processed to form a membrane for the cavities. Electrical access to the cavities may be provided.
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公开(公告)号：US11690595B2
公开(公告)日：2023-07-04
申请号：US16379093
申请日：2019-04-09
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Nevada J. Sanchez , Graham Peyton , Hamid Soleimani
CPC classification number: A61B8/4472 , A61B8/4236 , A61B8/56 , G01S7/52017 , G01S15/8906
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to wirelessly offloading, from a wearable ultrasound device, ultrasound data sufficient for forming one or more ultrasound images therefrom. The wearable ultrasound device may include an ultrasound patch. Indications that may be monitored with such a device, and therapeutic uses that may be provided by such a device, are also described. Methods and apparatuses are also described for compounding multilines of ultrasound data on an ultrasound device configured to collect the ultrasound data. Additionally, certain aspects of the technology relate to non-uniform grouping of ultrasound transducers that share a transmit/receive circuit in an ultrasound device.
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公开(公告)号：US20230089630A1
公开(公告)日：2023-03-23
申请号：US17891027
申请日：2022-08-18
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Susan A. Alie , Nevada J. Sanchez , Tyler S. Ralston , Christopher Thomas McNulty , Jaime Scott Zahorian , Paul Francis Cristman , Matthew de Jonge , Keith G. Fife
Abstract: A universal ultrasound device having an ultrasound probe includes a semiconductor die; a plurality of ultrasonic transducers integrated on the semiconductor die, the plurality of ultrasonic transducers configured to operate a first mode associated with a first frequency range and a second mode associated with a second frequency range, wherein the first frequency range is at least partially non-overlapping with the second frequency range; and control circuitry configured to: control the plurality of ultrasonic transducers to generate and/or detect ultrasound signals having frequencies in the first frequency range, in response to receiving an indication to operate the ultrasound probe in the first mode; and control the plurality of ultrasonic transducers to generate and/or detect ultrasound signals having frequencies in the second frequency range, in response to receiving an indication to operate the ultrasound probe in the second mode.
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公开(公告)号：US20220354459A1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-10
申请号：US17874180
申请日：2022-07-26
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Susan A. Alie , Nevada J. Sanchez , Tyler S. Ralston , Christopher Thomas McNulty , James Scott Zahorian , Paul Francis Cristman , Matthew de Jonge , Keith G. Fife
Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
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公开(公告)号：US11311274B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-26
申请号：US15631819
申请日：2017-06-23
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Susan A. Alie , Nevada J. Sanchez , Tyler S. Ralston , Christopher Thomas McNulty , Jaime Scott Zahorian , Paul Francis Cristman , Matthew de Jonge , Keith G. Fife , David Elgena
Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
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公开(公告)号：US20220079565A1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-17
申请号：US17483728
申请日：2021-09-23
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Liewei Bao , Kailiang Chen , Tyler S. Ralston , Nevada J. Sanchez
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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