US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Surface acoustic wave device having a trapezoidal electrode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,951, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Surface acoustic wave device having a trapezoidal electrode" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan), Keiichi Maki (Suita, Japan) and Yuya Hiramatsu (Neyagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface acoustic wave device can have a piezoelectric layer and at least one interdigital transducer electrode thereon with a trapezoidal shape. This can be useful to fill dead space or voids between nonparallel elements on the layer. For example, an array with ranks of slanted interdigital transducer electrodes may not be aligned with non-slanted elements ...