US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 7 for "Ultrasonic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,993, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic device" was invented by Masayoshi Yamada (Shiojiri, Japan), Hikaru Iwai (Matsukawa-machi, Japan), Shigeaki Muramatsu (Nagano, Japan) and Toshiya Okada (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic device includes an ultrasonic element configured to perform at least one of transmission of an ultrasonic wave along a first axis and reception of the ultrasonic wave input along the first axis, and a protective member provided on the first axis to cover the ultrasonic element. The protective member has a first surface provided with at least one hol...