US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 9 for "Acoustic wave device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,198, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Kazunori Inoue (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Katsumi Suzuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tetsuya Kimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a support including a support substrate with a thickness in a first direction, a piezoelectric layer on the support in the first direction, and resonators each including a functional electrode on the piezoelectric layer in the first direction. The support includes first and second space portions at positions where the respective resonators ...