US Patent Issued to Akoustis on April 22 for "Baw resonators with antisymmetric thick electrodes" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,941, issued on April 22, was assigned to Akoustis Inc. (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Baw resonators with antisymmetric thick electrodes" was invented by Dae Ho Kim (Cornelius, N.C.), Mary Winters (Webster, N.Y.) and Zhiqiang Bi (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonator circuit device. This device can include a piezoelectric layer having a front-side electrode and a back-side electrode spatially configured on opposite sides of the piezoelectric layer. Each electrode has a connection region and a resonator region. Each electrode also includes a partial mass-loaded structure configured within a vicinity of its connection reg...