ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,152, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Compact hybrid acoustic wave filter structure" was invented by Je-Hsiung Lan (San Diego), Jonghae Kim (San Diego), Nosun Park (San Diego), Jui-Yi Chiu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Kai Liu (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact, hybrid, acoustic wave filter structure is disclosed. In an aspect an apparatus comprises a substrate; a first, multi-layer metallization structure disposed above the substrate; a plurality of pillar structures disposed above, and electrically coupled to, the first metallization structure; a second metallization structure disposed above, a...