US Patent Issued to NITTO DENKO on June 24 for "Piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,725, issued on June 24, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device" was invented by Daisuke Nakamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoki Nagaoka (Ibaraki, Japan), Taketo Ishikawa (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hironobu Machinaga (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezo electric device having a configuration that can suppress the formation of a leakage path between electrodes that sandwich a piezoelectric layer and also reduce deterioration in the piezoelectric characteristics, is provided. The piezoelectric device has a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and...