History and MilestonesSound Technology, Inc. (STI) has over twenty years of experience in the design and manufacture of custom, high-performance, high-quality probes for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) medical ultrasound industry.
| 1987 - Sound Technology, Inc. (STI) founded and incorporated as a privately held Pennsylvania corporation. |
| 1987 - First customer shipments of STI’s single element products; first international customer shipments. |
| 1988 – R&D for first electronic linear and curved linear arrays |
| 1989 – First electronic arrays shipped for customer evaluation |
| 1989 – Revenues exceed US $1M |
| 1990 – First customer shipments of electronic arrays |
| 1991 – R&D for first endocavity probes |
| 1992 – First endocavity arrays shipped for customer evaluation |
| 1993 – First commercial order and shipments for micro-convex/endocavity array products |
| 1993 – First R&D for phased arrays; first phased arrays shipped for customer evaluation |
| 1993 – First customer shipments of phased array products |
| 1994 – Acquired by Acuson Corporation |
| 1995 – First electronic array biplane probe products |
| 1997 – First 4-way laparoscopic probe products |
| 1998 – First customer shipments of microconvex electronic array 3-D acoustic modules |
| 2000 – Acuson and STI acquired by Siemens Corporation |
| 2002 – STI acquired by Analogic Corporation |
| 2002 – Commonwealth of PA – Governor’s Export Award for mid-size manufacturing companies |
| 2004 – Commonwealth of PA – Governor’s Export Award for mid-size manufacturing companies |
| 2006 – First complete 3-D endocavity probe products |
| 2007 – Second-generation surgical probe products released |
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