ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,629, issued on March 18, was assigned to Skyworks Global Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Raised frame bulk acoustic wave devices" was invented by Tomoya Komatsu (Irvine, Calif.), Yiliu Wang (Irvine, Calif.), Takashi Hayashi (Suita, Japan), Hironori Sano (Osaka, Japan), Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Kwang Jae Shin (Yongin, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to bulk acoustic wave devices that have a raised frame structure, and filters that utilize the bulk acoustic wave devices. The raised frame structure can include a first raised frame layer that has a relatively low acoustic impedance. The raised fra...