ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,599, issued on March 18, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
"Piezoelectric resonator unit and oscillator provided with the same" was invented by Eitaro Kameda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Keisuke Takeyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Toshio Nishimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakatani (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric resonator unit that includes a base, a cover, and a laminated structure disposed between the base and the cover. The laminated structure includes a piezoelectric resonator having a piezoelectric layer with a pair of principal surfaces facing each other, and a pair o...