公开(公告)号：US20240122073A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-11

申请号：US18329703

申请日：2023-06-06

Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc

Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg ,  Susan A. Alie ,  Jaime Scott Zahorian ,  Paul Francis Cristman ,  Keith G. Fife

IPC: H10N30/05 ,  B06B1/02 ,  B06B1/06 ,  H05K3/36 ,  H10N30/87

CPC classification number: H10N30/05 ,  B06B1/0292 ,  B06B1/06 ,  H05K3/361 ,  H10N30/87 ,  H05K2201/10977 ,  H05K2203/0726

Abstract: An ultrasound-on-a-chip device has an ultrasonic transducer substrate with plurality of transducer cells, and an electrical substrate. For each transducer cell, one or more conductive bond connections are disposed between the ultrasonic transducer substrate and the electrical substrate. Examples of electrical substrates include CMOS chips, integrated circuits including analog circuits, interposers and printed circuit boards.

公开(公告)号：US20240044846A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-08

申请号：US18382368

申请日：2023-10-20

Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.

Inventor： Jonathan M. Rothberg ,  Susan A. Alie ,  Keith G. Fife ,  Nevada J. Sanchez ,  Tyler S. Ralston

IPC: G01N29/24 ,  B81C1/00 ,  B06B1/02 ,  A61B8/00 ,  B81B7/00

CPC classification number: G01N29/2406 ,  B81C1/00238 ,  B06B1/0292 ,  A61B8/4483 ,  B81B7/007 ,  B81C1/00301 ,  H01L2924/0002 ,  H01L2924/146 ,  H01L2924/1461 ,  H01L2224/4813 ,  B81C2203/0792 ,  B81C2201/019 ,  B81B2201/0271 ,  B81C2203/036

Abstract: An ultrasound device includes: ultrasonic transducer cavities; a membrane comprising a silicon layer that seals the ultrasonic transducer cavities; electrode regions configured to control vibration of the membrane; and a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) substrate including integrated circuitry that is electrically coupled to the electrode regions. The ultrasonic transducer cavities are disposed between the membrane and the integrated circuitry along a vertical direction of the ultrasound device.

公开(公告)号：US11861887B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17468633

申请日：2021-09-07

Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Matthew de Jonge ,  Robert Schneider ,  David Elgena ,  Alex Rothberg ,  Jonathan M. Rothberg ,  Michal Sofka ,  Tomer Gafner ,  Karl Thiele ,  Abraham Neben

IPC: G06V10/82 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06V40/60 ,  G06F18/2413 ,  G06V30/19 ,  G06V30/194 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T19/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T11/60 ,  A61B90/00 ,  A61B34/20

CPC classification number: G06V10/82 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/065 ,  A61B8/085 ,  A61B8/4427 ,  A61B8/46 ,  A61B8/52 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/5223 ,  G06F18/24133 ,  G06T7/0012 ,  G06T7/0014 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G06V10/454 ,  G06V30/194 ,  G06V30/19173 ,  G06V40/67 ,  A61B8/0833 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/4263 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/5215 ,  A61B2034/2065 ,  A61B2090/365 ,  A61B2090/378 ,  A61B2090/3937 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/20221 ,  G06T2207/30048 ,  G06T2207/30061 ,  G06T2210/41 ,  G06V2201/03

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.

公开(公告)号：US11847772B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-19

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

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  G01S17/00 ,  A61B8/08

CPC classification number: G06T7/0002 ,  G01S17/00 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/5215 ,  G06T2207/10016 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/20076 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/30168

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.

公开(公告)号：US11540805B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

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 ,  Jaime Scott Zahorian ,  Paul Francis Cristman ,  Matthew de Jonge ,  Keith G. Fife

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  B06B1/02 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/12 ,  B06B1/06

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220133274A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-05

申请号：US17578370

申请日：2022-01-18

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: 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.

公开(公告)号：US20240161491A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-16

申请号：US18514522

申请日：2023-11-20

Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.

Inventor： Matthew de Jonge ,  Robert Schneider ,  David Elgena ,  Alex Rothberg ,  Jonathan M. Rothberg ,  Michal Sofka ,  Tomer Gafner ,  Karl Thiele ,  Abraham Neben

IPC: G06V10/82 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06F18/2413 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/00 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06V30/19 ,  G06V30/194 ,  G06V40/60

CPC classification number: G06V10/82 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/065 ,  A61B8/085 ,  A61B8/4427 ,  A61B8/46 ,  A61B8/52 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/5223 ,  G06F18/24133 ,  G06T7/0012 ,  G06T7/0014 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G06V10/454 ,  G06V30/19173 ,  G06V30/194 ,  G06V40/67 ,  A61B2090/3937

Abstract: A method includes: obtaining an ultrasound image of an anatomical area from an ultrasound imaging device; inputting the ultrasound image into a first stage of a convolutional neural network, the first stage configured to determine key-point locations of the anatomical area; generating, for each of the key-point locations, a cropped region of the ultrasound image; inputting each of the cropped regions into a second stage of the convolutional neural network, the second stage configured to locate an anatomical landmark of the anatomical area; and outputting a location of the anatomical landmark.

公开(公告)号：US11928859B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-12

申请号：US17975268

申请日：2022-10-27

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: A61B5/00 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06F18/2413 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/00 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06V10/82 ,  G06V30/19 ,  G06V30/194 ,  G06V40/60 ,  A61B34/20 ,  A61B90/00

CPC classification number: G06V10/82 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/06 ,  A61B8/065 ,  A61B8/085 ,  A61B8/4427 ,  A61B8/46 ,  A61B8/52 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  A61B8/5223 ,  G06F18/24133 ,  G06T7/0012 ,  G06T7/0014 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G06T19/006 ,  G06V10/454 ,  G06V30/19173 ,  G06V30/194 ,  G06V40/67 ,  A61B8/0833 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  A61B8/4263 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/5215 ,  A61B2034/2065 ,  A61B2090/365 ,  A61B2090/378 ,  A61B2090/3937 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/20081 ,  G06T2207/20084 ,  G06T2207/20221 ,  G06T2207/30048 ,  G06T2207/30061 ,  G06T2210/41 ,  G06V2201/03

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.

公开(公告)号：US11883845B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

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

IPC: B06B1/02 ,  B81B3/00 ,  B81C1/00

CPC classification number: B06B1/0292 ,  B81B3/001 ,  B81C1/00984 ,  B81B2203/0127 ,  B81B2203/0315 ,  B81B2203/0392 ,  B81C2201/0109 ,  B81C2201/0125 ,  B81C2201/0176

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.

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

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  B06B1/02 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/12 ,  B06B1/06

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.