ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,614, issued on April 15, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Multilayer piezoelectric substrate with reduced side leakage and transverse mode suppression" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan), Gong Bin Tang (Moriguchi, Japan), Keiichi Maki (Suita, Japan) and Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device, a method of manufacture of the same, and a radio frequency filter including the same. The acoustic wave device comprises a multilayer piezoelectric substrate (MPS) including a layer of piezoelectric material having a lower surface disposed on an upper surface of a la...