ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,568, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device with multi-layer substrate including ceramic" was invented by Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan), Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Keiichi Maki (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device is disclosed. The acoustic wave device includes a support layer, a ceramic layer positioned over the support layer, a piezoelectric layer positioned over the ceramic layer, and an interdigital transducer electrode positioned over the piezoelectric layer. The support layer has a higher thermal conductivity than the ceramic layer...