ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,862, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device having multiple piezoelectric layers between electrodes" was invented by Jiansong Liu (Irvine, Calif.) and Yiliu Wang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this disclosure relate to an acoustic wave device with a plurality of piezoelectric layers positioned laterally relative to each other between two electrodes. One of the piezoelectric layers has a different property than another of the piezoelectric layers. Examples of the different property include c-axis orientation, doping concentration, dopant material,...