ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,617, issued on April 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"High Q solidly-mounted transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators" was invented by Bryant Garcia (Mississauga, Canada) and Greg Dyer (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic resonators and filters are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate and an acoustic Bragg reflector between a surface of the substrate and a back surface of the piezoelectric plate. A conductor pattern on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes an interdigital transducer (IDT). The IDT includes a...