ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,421, issued on July 8, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Kenta Maeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a first acoustic wave filter including a first piezoelectric substrate and first resonators on the first piezoelectric substrate, and a second acoustic wave filter including a second piezoelectric substrate and second resonators on the second piezoelectric substrate. The first and second resonators are opposed to each other with a gap therebetween. The first and second resonators each include a heat-generation resonator...