ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,635, 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), Shinichi Okada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Syunsuke Kido (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a substrate, a first resonator, a second resonator, and a shared reflector. The second resonator is adjacent to the first resonator and has different frequency characteristics different than the first resonator. The first resonator includes a first interdigital transducer electrode. The second resonat...