ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,745, 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 with insulating portion provided inside trench" was invented by Yuya Sakurai (Nisshin-city, Japan), Hideo Yamada (Nisshin-city, Japan), Megumi Suzuki (Nisshin-city, Japan), Tetsuya Enomoto (Nisshin-city, Japan), Akihiko Teshigahara (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 ...