US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Jan. 27 for "Filter device and multiplexer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,503, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Filter device and multiplexer" was invented by Tomoya Sato (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Furusato (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takayuki Okude (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Seima Kondo (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kota Okubo (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yoshinori Kameoka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a dielectric layer on the piezoelectric substrate, a first IDT electrode on the dielectric layer, a second IDT electrode positioned on the piezoelectric substrate in an area where the dielectric layer is not pro...