US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on May 6 for "Acoustic wave element, acoustic wave filter device, and multiplexer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,353, issued on May 6, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave element, acoustic wave filter device, and multiplexer" was invented by Yohei Konaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Katsuya Daimon (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave element includes a piezoelectric substrate, an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric substrate, and a reflector. The IDT electrode includes plural electrode fingers, and the reflector includes plural reflector electrode fingers. In a case where IRGAP is an IDT-reflector gap that is a distance between a center of the electrode finger located closest to t...