ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,549, issued on March 17, was assigned to Statek Corp. (Orange, Calif.).
"Torsional mode quartz crystal device" was invented by Yue Fang (Brea, Calif.) and Jian Feng Chen (Fords, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology generally relates to quartz crystal devices and more particularly to quartz crystal devices configured to vibrate in torsional mode. In one aspect, a quartz crystal device configured for temperature sensing comprises a fork-shaped quartz crystal comprising a pair of elongate tines laterally extending from a base region in a horizontal lengthwise direction of the fork-shaped quartz crystal, wherein ...