ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,632, issued on March 18, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device, and ladder filter including the same" was invented by Kentaro Nakamura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a substrate including a piezoelectric layer, first and second resonators on the substrate, and a shared reflector. The second resonator is located on the substrate adjacent to the first resonator and has different frequency characteristics than the first resonator. The shared reflector is located on the substrate between the first resonator and the second resonator and is a...