US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 7 for "Ultrasonic transducer and parametric speaker provided with the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,099, issued on July 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic transducer includes a diaphragm, a frame, an ultrasonic vibrator, and a resonance plate. The frame extends in a longitudinal direction and is bonded to the diaphragm. The ultrasonic vibrator is attached to the frame, respectively, and faces the diaphragm with a space therebetween. The resonance plate extends along the longitudinal direction and faces the diaphragm with a gap therebetwee...