US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Feb. 24 for "Oscillator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,684, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Oscillator" was invented by Ryuto Wada (Minowa, Japan) and Masaaki Okubo (Minowa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillator includes a resonator element provided with an excitation electrode, an oscillation circuit for oscillating the resonator element to generate an oscillation signal, a temperature sensor for generating a temperature signal for temperature compensation of the oscillation signal, a temperature control element for controlling temperature of the resonator element, and a container that houses the resonator element, the oscillation circuit, the...