US Patent Issued to TDK, TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on June 10 for "Dielectric thin film, dielectric thin film element, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric sensor, head assembly, head stack assembly, hard disk drive, printer head and inkjet printer device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,036, issued on June 10, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo) and TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Dielectric thin film, dielectric thin film element, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric sensor, head assembly, head stack assembly, hard disk drive, printer head and inkjet printer device" was invented by Yusuke Sato (Tokyo), Mirai Ishida (Tokyo), Wakiko Sato (Tokyo), Hiroshi Funakubo (Tokyo), Takao Shimizu (Tokyo), Miyu Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Keisuke Ishihama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a dielectric thin film including a metal oxide. The metal oxide includes bismuth, sodium, barium, and titanium, at least a par...