Inventor · Dublin, CA, US

Christopher M. Daft

16Patents
7h-index
14Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 2003 → May 30, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7087023B2 Microfabricated ultrasonic transducers with bias polarity beam profile control and method of operating the same Physics 83 Expired
US8277380B2 Piezoelectric and CMUT layered ultrasound transducer array Physics 66 Active
US8647279B2 Volume mechanical transducer for medical diagnostic ultrasound Physics 60 Active
US7963919B2 Ultrasound imaging transducer array for synthetic aperture Physics 13 Active
US7780597B2 Method and apparatus for improving the performance of capacitive acoustic transducers using bias polarity control and multiple firings Physics 11 Active
US7670290B2 Electric circuit for tuning a capacitive electrostatic transducer Physics 9 Active
US7508113B2 Apparatus for two-dimensional transducers used in three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging Physics 7 Active
US7618373B2 Microfabricated ultrasonic transducer array for 3-D imaging and method of operating the same Physics 7 Active
US8641628B2 Aperture synthesis using cMUTs Physics 3 Active
US8465431B2 Multi-dimensional CMUT array with integrated beamformation Physics 2 Active
US7824338B2 Apparatus for two-dimensional transducers used in three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging Physics 1 Active
US7679263B2 Apparatus for two-dimensional transducers used in three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging Physics 1 Active
US9274088B2 Redistribution layer in an ultrasound diagnostic imaging transducer Human Necessities 1 Active
US8795182B2 Switch for aperture control in medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging Human Necessities 1 Active
US7719166B2 Apparatus for two-dimensional transducer used in three-dimensional ultrasonic imaging Physics 0 Active
US10022751B2 Piezoelectric transducer device for configuring a sequence of operational modes Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.