ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,203, issued on April 29, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Mounting structure of micro vibrator" was invented by Shota Harada (Nisshin, Japan), Keitaro Ito (Nisshin, Japan), Hideaki Nishikawa (Nisshin, Japan), Yuuki Inagaki (Nisshin, Japan), Katsuaki Goto (Nisshin, Japan), Takahiko Yoshida (Nisshin, Japan) and Yusuke Kawai (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a mounting structure, a micro vibrator has: a curved surface portion having a hemispherical curved surface; a connecting portion extending from the curved surface portion ...