ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,532, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Soitec (Bernin, France).

"Transducer structure for single-port resonator" was invented by Sylvain Ballandras (Besancon, France), Emilie Courjon (Franois, France) and Florent Bernard (Besancon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer structure with means for transverse mode suppression comprises a piezoelectric substrate, and a pair of inter-digitated comb electrodes on the piezoelectric substrate. The first comb electrode has a first bus bar and a plurality of electrode fingers alternating with shorter dummy fingers, both extending from the first bus bar. The second comb electrode has ...