ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,865, issued on May 20, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multiplexer and communication device" was invented by Masanori Kato (Kyoto, Japan), Syunsuke Kido (Kyoto, Japan), Yukiteru Sugaya (Kyoto, Japan) and Hiroshi Matsubara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexer includes filters and low pass filters. A second frequency band a third frequency band are partially different. A first frequency band does not overlap the second frequency band the third frequency band. One end of the filter is connected to a common terminal and the other end is connected to an input/output terminal. The low pa...