US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 8 for "Acoustic isolator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,864, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Acoustic isolator" was invented by Peter Smeys (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammad Hadi Motieian Najar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ting-Ta Yen (San Jose, Calif.) and Ahmad Bahai (Lafayette, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a semiconductor device includes an acoustic medium, a first transducer on the acoustic medium, a first electrode coupled to the first transducer, a second transducer on the acoustic medium, and a second electrode coupled to the second acoustic transducer. The semiconductor device also includes a semiconductor substrate to support the a...