ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,059, issued on July 29, was assigned to SKYWORKS GLOBAL PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Bulk acoustic resonator" was invented by Jae Myoung Jhung (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kwang Jae Shin (Yongin, South Korea) and Myung Hyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk acoustic resonator can include a piezoelectric layer implemented between first and second electrodes with respective lateral shapes. The first and second lateral shapes can be selected and arranged to provide a resonator shape defined by an outline of an overlap of the first and second electrodes, such that the resonator s...