ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,194, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Parallel hybrid acoustic passive filter" was invented by Hai H. Ta (San Diego), Bo Pan (Irvine, Calif.) and Weimin Sun (Santa Rosa Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to a parallel hybrid acoustic passive filter. The parallel hybrid acoustic passive filter includes a first sub-filter and a second sub-filter. The first sub-filter includes a first acoustic resonator and a first non-acoustic passive component. The second sub-filter includes a second acoustic resonator and second first non-acoustic passive compon...