ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,431, issued on July 22, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave filter with multiple acoustic wave devices on a subtrate" was invented by Benjamin Paul Abbott (Irvine, Calif.), Gong Bin Tang (Moriguchi, 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 filter includes a piezoelectric layer. A first acoustic wave device includes a portion of the piezoelectric layer and a first multi-layer interdigital transducer electrode disposed over the first portion of the piezoelectric layer. Additional acoustic wave devices are coupled to the first acou...