US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on June 30 for "Development of high power textured piezoelectric ceramics with ultrahigh electromechanical properties for large driving field applications" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,548, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Development of high power textured piezoelectric ceramics with ultrahigh electromechanical properties for large driving field applications" was invented by Haoyang Leng (State College, Pa.), Yongke Yan (Port Matilda, Pa.) and Shashank Priya (State College, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a piezoelectric ceramic and methods of making the same that is suitable for use as a high-power piezoelectric ceramic, and in particular a piezoelectric ceramic that exhibits both good hard properties and good soft properties. ...