ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,590, issued on March 25, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave filter, high frequency module, and multiplexer" was invented by Toshiaki Takata (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter includes a series resonator or a longitudinally coupled resonator on a path connecting a first input-and-output terminal and a second input-and-output terminal, and parallel resonators each connected between the path and a ground. Among the parallel resonators, a second parallel resonator and a first parallel resonator are connected in parallel without another resonator being interposed therebetw...