ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,177, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NIHON DEMPA KOGYO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Quartz crystal device, crystal unit, and crystal oscillator" was invented by Tomonori Abe (Saitama, Japan) and Takafumi Saitoh (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quartz crystal device includes a package and a crystal blank mounted inside the package. An area of a flat surface of a mounted surface of the blank is 10% or more and 30% or less with respect to an area of a flat surface specified by a width and a depth of the package."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2022, under Application No. 18/075,414.

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