US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 4 for "Piezoelectric ceramic electronic component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,511, issued on March 4, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Piezoelectric ceramic electronic component" was invented by Yasunari Miwa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Sumioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Hayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hirozumi Ogawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric ceramic electronic component that includes a piezoelectric ceramic body including at least one piezoelectric ceramic layer; and a plurality of electrodes on a surface or inside of the piezoelectric ceramic body and arranged so that the at least one piezoelectric ceramic layer is sandwiched bet...