Verasonics Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Ultrasound Innovation

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Verasonics Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Ultrasound Innovation

2026-06-11 21:06 Last Updated At：21:10

KIRKLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 11, 2026--

Verasonics, Inc., the world’s leading provider of advanced ultrasound platforms for research and development, announced today the celebration of its 25 th anniversary. Marking a quarter century of innovation, collaboration, and impact, this milestone highlights Verasonics’ longstanding commitment to empowering researchers, engineers, and commercial partners around the world with flexible, high-performance ultrasound technologies.

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“From the beginning, our goal has been to give innovators the freedom to explore what’s possible with ultrasound,” said Jon K. Daigle, CEO of Verasonics. “Our 25 th anniversary is a celebration of the researchers, engineers, and partners who have pushed and expanded the boundaries of ultrasound innovation.”

Founded in 2001, Verasonics introduced a new paradigm in ultrasound by replacing hardware-based beamforming with a highly programmable software-based ultrasound platform. This approach provided researchers with direct control over system parameters, access to real-time raw channel data, and the ability to leverage rapid advances in computing power, unlocking new possibilities for experimentation, rapid prototyping, and commercialization. This vision has helped redefine ultrasound innovation worldwide.

Today, Verasonics systems are trusted by research and development teams in academia, commercial and government institutions around the world and have supported thousands of scientific publications across biomedical imaging, focused ultrasound therapy, photoacoustics, and nondestructive testing (NDT). Through its advanced, programmable ultrasound platforms and close collaboration with the global ultrasound community, Verasonics continues to help drive innovation across a wide range of applications.

As Verasonics celebrates 25 years of empowering ultrasound innovation, the company remains focused on the opportunities ahead. With advancements accelerating across imaging, therapy, and interdisciplinary applications, Verasonics will continue to equip customers with the powerful, flexible tools they need to shape what comes next. Verasonics thanks its customers and partners for being an essential part of this journey and looks forward to empowering the next generation of ultrasound discoveries and innovations.

About Verasonics, Inc.

Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, USA, Verasonics is a privately held company founded in 2001. Verasonics, the leader in research ultrasound, empowers ultrasound innovation worldwide by providing flexible ultrasound platforms for research, development, and commercialization. Verasonics solutions are used across biomedical ultrasound, materials science, earth sciences, and acoustics to help accelerate innovation from concept to market. Verasonics also licenses its technology to companies for use in their commercial products.

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Mediators see progress in diplomatic efforts to halt Iran war, 2 regional officials say

CAIRO (AP) — Mediators have achieved progress in efforts to get the United States and Iran back to negotiations and avert an all-out war in the Middle East, two regional officials said Monday, with a pause in attacks coming after a period of rapidly escalating tensions.

The comments came after neither the U.S. nor Iran reported carrying out any attacks for three straight days — a respite after about two weeks of sustained bombardments that had led to increasing fears of a return to all-out war.

The two regional officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive regional talks, said mediators led by Qatar and Pakistan were working to bridge the gap between Washington and Tehran to return to an interim ceasefire deal that had been largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire.

The U.S. has paused attacks after targeting Iranian coastal areas and infrastructure in a nearly two-week escalation sparked by Iran’s firing at ships trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global oil shipments. The Pentagon did not respond to questions.

U.S. President Donald Trump is “giving talks some space. He’s giving it a little bit of room,” Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Fox News.

Waltz dismissed the idea that the U.S. stockpile of interceptors crucial in defending against Iranian attacks is running low, but experts have questioned how long both the U.S. and Iran can afford to keep up attacks.

Since the U.S. has halted attacks for the past two nights, Iran has as well, its army spokesperson told Iran’s state TV on Sunday. Tehran in recent days has counterattacked against countries in the region hosting U.S. military forces, killing at least three service members at a base in Jordan and one in Iraq.

One of the regional officials who spoke to AP Monday described the progress made in mediation efforts as “significant.” He said mediators were working with Iran and Oman on a mechanism for managing vessels’ transit through the Strait of Hormuz, the flashpoint for the latest strikes and counterstrikes.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said during a news conference in Tehran Monday that mediators were conveying messages but there were no direct negotiations.

“Mediators may convey messages to us from the American side regarding ongoing developments in the region. But at present, we have no negotiations with the American side,” Baghaei said.

He said Iran and Oman, which lies on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz, had already held talks on Friday and Saturday on how to manage ship traffic through the waterway.

“The objective is for Iran and Oman, as the two coastal states, to develop mechanisms to ensure safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz while respecting the sovereign rights and sovereignty of both coastal states, as well as Iran’s security and national interests” Baghaei said. However, he stressed that the waterway remains closed.

Tehran has asserted that the interim deal with the U.S. allows it to manage shipping on the waterway for now, and it has objected to U.S. efforts to support a route that passes close to Oman instead. The strait was considered an international waterway before the war.

The U.S. military on Saturday said its recently reimposed naval blockade against Iran continued, with a dozen commercial ships redirected, two disabled and two boarded. U.S. forces “remain highly vigilant, focused, lethal, and ready,” it added.

The 60-day period established by the interim deal in mid-June is now well into its second half, and major issues that were meant to be negotiated — notably Iran’s nuclear program at the heart of tensions — remain set aside as mediators try to keep both sides talking.

Concerns continue about shipping through another crucial waterway in the region, the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the Red Sea. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last week threatened a blockade of Saudi shipping there, and fired on at least one Saudi tanker, setting it alight.

Global energy supplies and the economy remain in the balance as gasoline prices have risen again.

Commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz was at a three-week low, a maritime body overseen by the U.S. Navy said Sunday, adding that no new attacks had been confirmed in the past 72 hours. It said traffic remained steady through the Bab el-Mandeb.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to travel to the United States and meet with Trump in Washington on Tuesday, his office has said. They last met in Washington in February, weeks before they launched the war on Iran that killed senior leaders including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian-backed Hezbollah fired at Israel two days after the war began, and Israel responded with airstrikes and ground forces in southern Lebanon. Since then, the U.S. has supported landmark direct talks between Lebanon and Israel to try to calm that front and find a way to disarm Hezbollah.

Separately, Baghaei slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he said over the weekend that Ukraine had struck “vessels used in military cargo shipments involving Iran” in the Caspian Sea.

On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Ukraine’s strike on an Iranian vessel had killed a sailor.

In a statement on X, Araghchi denounced the attack as a “blatant U.N. Charter violation done at Israel’s behest to drag Europe into its war.” He said he made it clear in calls with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the attack “can’t go unanswered.”

Iran is an ally of Russia in its war against Ukraine, helping Moscow build up its drone expertise.

Speaking during the news conference in Tehran Monday, Baghaei said that “all parties that consider themselves in some way supporters of the Ukrainian regime must be held accountable.”

He said Zelenskyy’s “behavior is reminiscent of the anarchists who, on the eve of World War I, carried out theatrical and highly dangerous actions whose repercussions engulfed all of Europe.”

Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece. Associated Press reporters Cara Anna in Lowville, New York; Darlene Superville and Ben Finley in Washington; and Jill Lawless and Emma Burrows in London contributed.