US Patent Issued to COMPAGNIE GENERALES DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN on Feb. 24 for "Piezoelectric device having improved piezoelectric properties" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,970, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALES DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

"Piezoelectric device having improved piezoelectric properties" was invented by Guillaume Pibre (Clermont-Ferrand, France) and Francois Lafort (Clermont-Ferrand, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device comprises at least one piezoelectric layer P interposed between two conductive layers E, each layer E forming an electrode, characterized in that the layer P comprises at least one piezoelectric composition based on at least one elastomer matrix comprising predominantly at least one diene elastomer, a...