US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on June 3 for "Transversely-excited acoustic resonator with Z-cut lithium niobate plate" (Canadian, Bulgarian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,133, issued on June 3, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Transversely-excited acoustic resonator with Z-cut lithium niobate plate" was invented by Ventsislav Yantchev (Sofia, Bulgaria), Viktor Plesski (Gorgier, Switzerland) and Bryant Garcia (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acoustic resonator devices, filters, and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a lithium niobate plate having front and back surfaces, wherein Euler angles of the lithium niobate plate are [0deg, Beta, 0deg], where Beta is greater than or equal to 0deg and less than or equal to 60deg,...