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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,163, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Oscillator" was invented by Manabu Shiraki (Ina, Japan) and Shinya Aoki (Minowa-machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element electrically coupled to the resonator element and configured to output a clock signal; and a container accommodating the resonator element and the circuit element and including a substrate having a first surface on which the circuit element is mounted. The substrate includes a first electrode provided on the first surface and electrically coupled to the resonator element, a second ...