US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 1 for "Piezoelectric device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,760, issued on July 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Piezoelectric device" was invented by Shinsuke Ikeuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Seiji Umezawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Fumiya Kurokawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masayuki Suzuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device includes an outer base, a protruding base, and only one cantilevered portion. A protruding base includes a protrusion and a tip portion. The protrusion protrudes from an internal circumferential surface of the outer base toward a center of a ring shape. The tip portion is connected to the protrusion and located at ...