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公开(公告)号:US20240100565A1
公开(公告)日:2024-03-28
申请号:US18523949
申请日:2023-11-30
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:US11712221B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-01
申请号:US15626711
申请日:2017-06-19
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 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:US20230149976A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-18
申请号:US18093701
申请日:2023-01-05
Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
Inventor: Lingyun Miao , Keith G. Fife , Jianwei Liu , Jonathan M. Rothberg
CPC classification number: B06B1/0292 , B81B3/001 , B81C1/00984 , B81B2203/0315 , B81C2201/0176 , B81B2203/0127 , B81C2201/0109 , B81C2201/0125 , B81B2203/0392
Abstract: A method of forming an ultrasonic transducer device involves depositing a first layer on a substrate, depositing a second layer on the first layer, patterning the second layer at a region corresponding to a location of a transducer cavity, depositing a third layer that refills regions created by patterning the second layer, planarizing the third layer to a top surface of the second layer, removing the second layer, conformally depositing a fourth layer over the first layer and the third layer, defining the transducer cavity in a support layer formed over the fourth layer; and bonding a membrane to the support layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20230079579A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-16
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 , G01S15/02 , G01S15/89 , H04R1/00 , B81C1/00 , G01S7/52 , B06B1/02 , A61N7/02
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:US20230000472A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17841257
申请日:2022-06-15
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Jonathan M. Rothberg , Tyler S. Ralston , Nevada J. Sanchez , Andrew J. Casper
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 an output data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as a 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. The on-chip digitization of received signals also enables the on-chip integration of ultrasound processing and/or pre-processing to reduce the burden on off-chip computing. Data compression architectures are disclosed to facilitate the transfer of data off-chip as a digital data stream in accordance with the bandwidth requirements of standard commercially-available output interfaces.
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公开(公告)号:US11540808B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-03
申请号:US15626954
申请日:2017-06-19
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Daniel Nouri , Alex Rothberg , Matthew de Jonge , Jimmy Jia , Jonathan M. Rothberg , Michal Sofka , David Elgena , Mark Michalski , Tomer Gafner , Abraham Neben
IPC: A61B8/00 , G06K9/62 , A61B8/08 , G06V10/44 , G06V30/194 , G06V40/60 , A61B8/06 , G06T7/70 , G06T19/00 , A61B8/02 , G06T7/00 , G06T11/60 , A61B90/00 , A61B34/20
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for guiding an operator to use an ultrasound device. Thereby, operators with little or no experience operating ultrasound devices may capture medically relevant ultrasound images and/or interpret the contents of the obtained ultrasound images. For example, some of the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify a particular anatomical view of a subject to image with an ultrasound device, guide an operator of the ultrasound device to capture an ultrasound image of the subject that contains the particular anatomical view, and/or analyze the captured ultrasound image to identify medical information about the subject.
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公开(公告)号:US20220383482A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-01
申请号:US17886616
申请日:2022-08-12
Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
Inventor: Alex Rothberg , Igor Lovchinsky , Jimmy Jia , Tomer Gafner , Matthew de Jonge , Jonathan M. Rothberg
Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for calculating, during imaging, a quality of a sequence of images collected during the imaging. Calculating the quality of the sequence of images may include calculating a probability that a medical professional would use a given image for clinical evaluation and a confidence that an automated analysis segmentation performed on the given image is correct. Techniques described herein also include receiving a trigger to perform an automatic measurement on a sequence of images, calculating a quality of the sequence of images, determining whether the quality of the sequence of images exceeds a threshold quality, and performing the automatic measurement on the sequence of images based on determining that the quality of the sequence of images exceeds the threshold quality.
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公开(公告)号:US11375980B2
公开(公告)日:2022-07-05
申请号:US16404672
申请日:2019-05-06
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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公开(公告)号:US11272903B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-15
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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