ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,744, issued on April 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan), MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan) and Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. (Tokyo).

"Piezoelectric device having an insulating portion overlapping electrode opening" was invented by Tetsuya Enomoto (Nisshin-city, Japan), Takahide Usui (Fujimino-city, Japan), Naokatsu Ikegami (Fujimino-city, Japan) and Shuji Katakami (Fujimino-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device includes a support member, and a vibrating portion provided on a support surface of the support member. The vibrating portion include...