ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,063, issued on May 13, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic device with connected cantilever" was invented by You Qian (Singapore), Rakesh Kumar (Singapore) and Guofeng Chen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone is provided comprising a substrate including walls defining a cavity and at least two of the walls defining a respective anchor region each, a piezoelectric film layer defining at least two beams, each respective beam supported by the substrate at each anchor region, the beams being free along a portion of their respectiv...