US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Ultrasonic transducer and parametric speaker including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,196, issued on June 23, 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: "An ultrasonic transducer includes a diaphragm, one or more frame bodies extending in a longitudinal direction and bonded to the diaphragm, and one or more ultrasonic vibrators attached to the respective one or more frame bodies and facing the diaphragm with a space in between. The diaphragm is structured to resonate and vibrate in a direction orthogonal to the diaphragm in a phase opposite to a phase o...