US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Aug. 4 for "Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with interdigital transducer configured to reduce diaphragm stress" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,846, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with interdigital transducer configured to reduce diaphragm stress" was invented by Greg Dyer (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Bryant Garcia (Mississauga, Canada), Doug Jachowski (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Robert Hammond (Rockville, Md.), Neal Fenzi (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ryo Wakabayashi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic resonator is provided that includes a substrate; a piezoelectric layer having a portion that forms a diaphragm over a cavity; and IDT on the piezoelectric ...