ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,766, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device with interdigital transducer electrode having buffer layer" was invented by Takanori Yasuda (Nara, Japan), Keiichi Maki (Suita, Japan), Yumi Torazawa (Takatsuki, Japan), Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Michael David Hill (Emmitsburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device is disclosed. The acoustic wave device can include a substrate, an interdigital transducer electrode disposed on the substrate, and a temperature compensation layer over the interdigital transducer electrode. The IDT electrode includes a lower layer,...