US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Dec. 30 for "Piezoelectric device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,810, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Piezoelectric device" was invented by Munehisa Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yasumasa Taniguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Katsuya Daimon (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takuro Okada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric device includes a support substrate, an intermediate layer on the support substrate in a first region, a piezoelectric layer on the intermediate layer, a functional element on the piezoelectric layer, and an insulating layer. The insulating layer is located on the support substrate in a second region adjacent to the f...