ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,419, issued on March 24, was assigned to CERACOMP Co. LTD. (Asan-si, South Korea).

"Piezoelectric single crystal including internal electric field, method for manufacturing same, and piezoelectric and dielectric application components using same" was invented by Ho Yong Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Won Sun Baick (Seoul, South Korea), Moon Chan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Taek Oh (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Jae Joo (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a piezoelectric single crystal comprising an internal bias electric field, a method of manufacturing the same, and piezoelectric and dielectric application...