ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,970, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Metamagnetics Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Broadband magnetostatic surface wave devices with customizable frequency response" was invented by Piotr Kulik (Natick, Mass.), Dayton Engstrom (Westborough, Mass.), Scott M. Gillette (Norfolk, Mass.) and Michael Geiler (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an intrinsically multiplexed magnetostatic surface wave (MSSW) device comprising of a pair of transducers that couple to one or more plurality of ferrite films. In embodiments, the ferrite films may be provided as one or more of a YIG, Nickle Zinc Ferrite, Lithium Ferrite configured to...