US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies, Nisshinbo Micro Devices on March 24 for "Piezoelectric element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,417, issued on March 24, 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 element" was invented by Megumi Suzuki (Nisshin, Japan), Tomoya Joke (Nisshin, Japan), Hideo Yamada (Nisshin, Japan), Shuji Katakami (Tokyo), Takahide Usui (Tokyo), Takashi Kakefuda (Tokyo) and Naoki Masumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric element includes a support member, a vibrator, a through electrode and a seed layer. The vibrator is disposed on an insulation film of the support member, and includ...