ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,330, issued on March 11, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Cylindrical structure" was invented by Takafumi Inoue (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masayuki Tsuji (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Eiji Taguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hirokazu Hayashi (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Ebina (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cylindrical structure including a first cloth including a piezoelectric thread that generates an electric potential from external energy, a second cloth including a piezoelectric thread that generates an electric potential from external energy, and a connection portion connecting the first cloth and the ...