ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,504, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device including dielectric film between electrodes and piezoelectric layer" was invented by Minefumi Ouchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takeshi Nakao (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, a functional electrode on the piezoelectric layer, first and second electrode films on the piezoelectric layer, facing each other, and having different electric potentials from each other, and a dielectric film between at least one of at leas...