ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,002, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Unictron Technologies Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Ultrasonic transducer" was invented by Lung Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Chuan Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer, including a piezoelectric element with physical characteristics of radial resonant frequencies and thickness resonant frequencies, and with an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other through the piezoelectric element and a lateral surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, and an acoustic matching layer set on the upper su...