ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,708, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vibrator device" was invented by Shigenori Isozaki (Minowa-machi, Japan) and Shinya Aoki (Minowa-machi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibrator device has a base, a semiconductor element having an oscillation circuit, and a vibrator having an excitation electrode sequentially stacked and includes a first wire electrically coupling between the excitation electrode and the semiconductor element, a second wire electrically coupling between a second external terminal as an external output terminal placed on the base and the semiconductor element, and a shield wir...