ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,319, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Filter device and radio-frequency front-end circuit including the same" was invented by Makoto Ogata (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device includes a multilayer body including dielectric layers, an input terminal, an output terminal, a ground terminal, a common electrode, a ground electrode, resonators, a shield electrode, and ground vias. A first ground via couples the shield electrode and the ground electrode via the common electrode. A second ground via directly couples the shield electrode and the ground electrode wi...