ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,199, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device with vertically mass loaded multi-layer interdigital transducer electrode for transverse mode suppression" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device has a multilayer piezoelectric substrate (MPS) structure and a multilayer interdigital transducer electrode (IDT). The multilayer piezoelectric substrate includes a piezoelectric layer over a support substrate. An additional (functional) layer can optionally be interposed between the piezoelectri...