ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,416, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QXONIX INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Acoustic devices, structures and systems" was invented by Dariusz Burak (Fort Collins, Colo.), Kevin J. Grannen (Thornton, Colo.) and Jack Lenell (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving acoustic wave device structures are disclosed, including filters, oscillators and systems that may include such devices. First and second layers of piezoelectric material may be acoustically coupled with one another to have a piezoelectrically excitable resonance mode. The first layer of piezoelectric material may have a first piezoelectric axis o...