ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,003, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Yasumasa Taniguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Katsuya Daimon (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hideki Iwamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes an IDT electrode and reflector electrodes on or above a piezoelectric substrate. A region in which first and second electrode fingers of the IDT electrode overlap each other in an acoustic wave propagation direction defines an intersection region. The intersection region includes a center region and first and second edge regions on bot...