ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,423, issued on July 8, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device with mass loading strip having tapered sidewall" was invented by Yumi Torazawa (Takatsuki, Japan), Yuya Hiramatsu (Neyagawa, Japan), Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave device with transverse mode suppression. The acoustic wave device can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode, a temperature compensation layer, and a mass loading strip. The mass loading strip can overlap edge portions of fingers ...