ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,366, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ultrasonic transducer and parametric speaker including the same" was invented by Hironari Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dimension in a longitudinal direction inside one or more frame bodies is equal to or greater than four times a dimension in a short direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal direction inside the one or more frame bodies and is greater than a minimum dimension in the longitudinal direction of one or more ultrasonic vibrators. An average length in the longitudinal direction of ...