ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,430, issued on July 22, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of forming acoustic wave device with reduced acoustic coupling" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an acoustic wave device is disclosed. The method can include providing a structure having a support substrate that includes a first substrate portion, a second substrate portion, and a third substrate portion between the first portion and the second portion, a piezoelectric layer that includes a first portion over the first substrate portion and a second p...