ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,415, issued on July 8, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Multi-band filter with suppressed shear horizontal mode" was invented by Yuya Hiramatsu (Neyagawa, Japan) and Masafumi Iwaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-band filter configured to allow signals to pass at multiple frequency bands includes a piezoelectric substrate and a plurality of groups of electrodes disposed on the piezoelectric substrate. Each group forms a respective filter to allow signals to pass at a corresponding frequency band. A first group forms a first filter having a first frequency band a second group forms a secon...