B06B 2201/51
Electrostatic transducer
B06B2201/51 (Electrostatic transducer) appears on 91 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B06B- Granted patents
- 91
- Published applications
- 111
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 207
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 3 | 12 |
| 2016 | 4 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 | 8 |
| 2018 | 6 | 8 |
| 2019 | 8 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 9 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 |
| 2022 | 7 | 14 |
| 2023 | 7 | 7 |
| 2024 | 9 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 | 6 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Acoustic element integrated circuit, probe, and diagnosis device14 Jul 2026US 12,678,825 B2Silicon & System Co., Limited
- Contactless CMUT operation12 May 2026US 12,622,674 B2The University of British Columbia
- Electronic device including a transducer electrically connected to a demultiplexer and method for fabricating the transducer in the electronic device5 May 2026US 12,616,997 B2Innolux Corporation
- Higher bandwidth micromachined transducers mixed with biasing scheme28 Apr 2026US 12,611,697 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Bias-switchable ultrasonic transducer array10 Mar 2026US 12,569,881 B2
- Resonator-Boosted Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151795 A1Northeastern University
- Methods of operating and manufacturing capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer with contoured electrode29 Jan 2026US 2026/0027584 A1The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Ultrasonic vibration sub-element and ultrasound probe15 May 2025US 2025/0153219 A1Qisda Corporation
- Ultrasonic sensor and control method thereof15 May 2025US 2025/0155562 A1Qisda Corporation
- Synthetic phase alternating row-column transducer array10 Apr 2025US 2025/0114070 A1Clinisonix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Bias control of electrostatic transducers105US 6,795,374 B2Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. · 2004
- Ultrasonic transducers in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) wafers and related apparatus and methods55US 9,505,030 B2Butterfly Network, Inc. · 2016
- Ultrasound transducer temperature compensation methods, apparatus and programs35US 6,314,380 B1Robert Bosch Corporation Corp of Delaware · 2001
- Circuit and method for exciting a micro-machined transducer to have low second order harmonic transmit energy27US 6,292,435 B1Agilent Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Ultrasound transducer temperature compensation methods, apparatus and programs27US 6,470,286 B1Robert Bosch GmbH · 2002