ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,617, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Acoustic resonator" was invented by Huiyao Chen (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ting-Ta Yen (San Jose, Calif.), Ricky A. Jackson (Richardson, Texas) and Keegan Martin (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) resonator module for an IC package includes an acoustic resonator having a surface and a Bragg reflector adhered to the surface of the acoustic resonator. The Bragg reflector includes low impedance layers formed of a first material with a first acoustic impedance and a high impedance layer formed of a second material with a second acoustic impedan...