ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,196, issued on May 13, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Filter device and radio-frequency front end circuit including the same" was invented by Tetsuo Taniguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Masayuki Kikuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device includes a dielectric substrate, first and second ground electrodes connected to a ground terminal, and resonators between the ground electrodes and electromagnetically coupled to each other. The ground electrodes are at different positions in a normal direction of the dielectric substrate. Each of the resonators includes a first capacitor el...