US Patent Issued to Akoustis Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Piezoelectric acoustic resonator with dielectric protective layer manufactured with piezoelectric thin film transfer process" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,916, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Akoustis Technologies Corp. (Huntersville, N.C.).

"Piezoelectric acoustic resonator with dielectric protective layer manufactured with piezoelectric thin film transfer process" was invented by Dae Ho Kim (Cornelius, N.C.), Frank Zhiquang Bi (Mooresville, N.C.), Mary Winters (Webster, N.Y.), Abhay Saranswarup Kochhar (Charlotte, N.C.), Emad Mehdizadeh (Charlotte, N.C.), Rohan W. Houlden (Oak Ridge, N.C.) and Jeffrey B. Shealy (Davidson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and structure for a transfer process for an acoustic resonator device. In an example, a bulk acoustic wave resonat...