US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Acoustic wave devices with multi-layer piezoelectric substrate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,866, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave devices with multi-layer piezoelectric substrate" 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 substrate, an optional functional layer disposed over at least a portion of the substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed over at least a portion of the functional layer and/or substrate, and an interdigital transducer electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer has an outer edge spaced inward of an outer edge of the substrate...