ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,596, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to United Arab Emirates University (United Arab Emirates).
"Devices with piezoelectric elements and method for using piezoelectric elements" was invented by Mahmoud F. Y. Al Ahmad (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates) and Abdulrahman Mohamed (Al Ain, United Arab Emirates).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to electrical devices (1, 10, 11) comprising piezoelectric elements (1a, 1b, 10a, 11a) formed in a variety of known geometrical shapes and polling directions. The present invention is based on the inventive concept of switching place between the set of output electrodes (20a, 2...