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31.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20220110529A1
公开(公告)日：2022-04-14
申请号：US17555351
申请日：2021-12-17
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Nevada J. Sanchez , Gregory L. Charvat , Tyler S. Ralston
Abstract: Described herein are arrays of piezoelectric ultrasound elements. The piezoelectric ultrasound elements may be arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The piezoelectric ultrasound elements in one column may be shifted along the vertical dimension of the array with respect to piezoelectric ultrasound elements in an adjacent column. A piezoelectric ultrasound element in one column may be coupled to a different circuit than all other piezoelectric ultrasound elements in the column. The circuit may be, for example, an analog-to-digital converter or a circuit configured to transmit ultrasound signals from the array. Each piezoelectric ultrasound element in a column may be configured so that it can operate at a different frequency from each of the other piezoelectric ultrasound elements in the column. There array may include at least 1,000 piezoelectric ultrasound elements. The array may be monolithically integrated with a substrate comprising different circuits for each piezoelectric ultrasound element in the array.
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公开(公告)号：US11294044B2
公开(公告)日：2022-04-05
申请号：US16109457
申请日：2018-08-22
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Kailiang Chen , Tyler S. Ralston , Keith G. Fife
Abstract: Circuitry for ultrasound devices is described. A multilevel pulser is described, which can provide bipolar pulses of multiple levels. The multilevel pulser includes a pulsing circuit and pulser and feedback circuit. Symmetric switches are also described. The symmetric switches can be positioned as inputs to ultrasound receiving circuitry to block signals from the receiving circuitry.
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公开(公告)号：US11154279B2
公开(公告)日：2021-10-26
申请号：US15087962
申请日：2016-03-31
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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公开(公告)号：US20240407759A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-12
申请号：US18806916
申请日：2024-08-16
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Keith G. Fife , Tyler S. Ralston , Gregory L. Charvat , Nevada J. Sanchez
IPC: A61B8/00 , A61B8/08 , A61B8/14 , A61N7/00 , A61N7/02 , B06B1/02 , B81C1/00 , G01S7/52 , G01S15/02 , G01S15/89 , H04R1/00
Abstract: To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and a high-speed serial data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chip allows advanced digital signal processing to be performed on-chip, and thus permits the full integration of an entire ultrasonic imaging system on a single semiconductor substrate. Various novel waveform generation techniques, transducer configuration and biasing methodologies, etc., are likewise disclosed. HIFU methods may additionally or alternatively be employed as a component of the “ultrasound-on-a-chip” solution disclosed herein.
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公开(公告)号：US12076189B2
公开(公告)日：2024-09-03
申请号：US17890985
申请日：2022-08-18
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg , Keith G. Fife , Tyler S. Ralston , Gregory L. Charvat , Nevada J. Sanchez
IPC: A61B8/00 , A61B8/14 , A61N7/00 , A61N7/02 , B06B1/02 , B81C1/00 , G01S7/52 , G01S15/02 , G01S15/89 , H04R1/00 , A61B8/08
CPC classification number: A61B8/4494 , A61B8/14 , A61B8/145 , A61B8/4483 , A61B8/4488 , A61B8/54 , A61N7/00 , A61N7/02 , B06B1/02 , B81C1/00246 , G01S7/52019 , G01S7/52034 , G01S7/52047 , G01S7/5208 , G01S15/02 , G01S15/8915 , G01S15/8977 , H04R1/00 , A61B8/485
Abstract: A hand-held ultrasound device, for placement on a subject, includes a semiconductor device and a housing to support the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; a plurality of pulsers coupled to the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; a plurality of waveform generators configured to drive the plurality of pulsers; receive processing circuitry configured to process ultrasound signals received by the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; and a plurality of independently controllable registers configured to store a plurality of different parameters for the waveform generators.
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公开(公告)号：US11808899B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-07
申请号：US17548370
申请日：2021-12-10
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Kailiang Chen , Keith G. Fife , Tyler S. Ralston , Nevada J. Sanchez , Andrew J. Casper
CPC classification number: G01S7/5273 , G01S7/5208 , G01S7/52026 , B06B1/0292 , G01S15/8959 , G01S15/8979
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for implementing a coding scheme on ultrasound signals received by a plurality of ultrasonic transducers. The coding, and subsequent decoding, may allow for multiple ultrasonic transducers to be operated in a receive mode simultaneously while still differentiating the contribution of the individual ultrasonic transducers. Improved signal characteristics may result, including improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
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公开(公告)号：US11808897B2
公开(公告)日：2023-11-07
申请号：US17493775
申请日：2021-10-04
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor： Nevada J. Sanchez , Liewei Bao , Tyler S. Ralston
CPC classification number: G01S7/52025 , A61B8/4477 , A61B8/4494 , G01S7/5208 , G01S7/52034 , A61B8/4236 , A61B8/4472 , A61B8/5207 , G01S15/8915 , G01S15/8925
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：US11650301B2
公开(公告)日：2023-05-16
申请号：US17088477
申请日：2020-11-03
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Liewei Bao , Kailiang Chen , Tyler S. Ralston , Nevada J. Sanchez
CPC classification number: G01S7/524 , G01S7/52034
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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39.发明申请公开(公告)号：US20220354467A1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-10
申请号：US17871875
申请日：2022-07-22
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Nathan Silberman , Alex Rothberg , Israel Malkin , Karl Thiele , Tyler S. Ralston , Christophe Meyer
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to configuring an ultrasound system with imaging parameter values. In particular, certain aspects relate to configuring an ultrasound system to produce a plurality of sets of ultrasound images, each respective set of the plurality of sets of ultrasound images being produced with a different respective set of a plurality of sets of imaging parameter values; obtaining, from the ultrasound system, the plurality of sets of ultrasound images; determining a set of ultrasound images from among the plurality of sets of ultrasound images that has a highest quality; and based on determining the set of ultrasound images from among the plurality of sets of ultrasound images that has the highest quality, automatically configuring the ultrasound system to produce ultrasound images using a set of imaging parameter values with which the set of ultrasound images that has the highest quality was produced.
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公开(公告)号：US20220313219A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-06
申请号：US17845940
申请日：2022-06-21
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor： Kailiang Chen , Nevada J. Sanchez , Susan A. Alie , Tyler S. Ralston , Jonathan M. Rothberg , Keith G. Fife , Joseph Lutsky
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to an ultrasound device including a first die that includes an ultrasonic transducer, a first application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that is bonded to the first die and includes a pulser, and a second ASIC in communication with the second ASIC that includes integrated digital receive circuitry. In some embodiments, the first ASIC may be bonded to the second ASIC and the second ASIC may include analog processing circuitry and an analog-to-digital converter. In such embodiments, the second ASIC may include a through-silicon via (TSV) facilitating communication between the first ASIC and the second ASIC. In some embodiments, SERDES circuitry facilitates communication between the first ASIC and the second ASIC and the first ASIC includes analog processing circuitry and an analog-to-digital converter. In some embodiments, the technology node of the first ASIC is different from the technology node of the second ASIC.
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