ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,835, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Luxembourg Institute of Science & Technology (LIST) (Luxembourg).
"Passivated transparent piezoelectric device with high transparency and high breakdown voltage" was invented by Emmanuel Defay (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Stephanie Girod (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg), Sebastjan Glinsek (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) and Aymen Mahjoub (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device comprising a transparent substrate; a transparent barrier layer on the substrate; a transparent piezoelectric layer on the transparent barrier layer; a transparent layer of interd...