US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on July 14 for "Acoustic wave device including electrodes with different surface angles" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,578, issued on July 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device including electrodes with different surface angles" was invented by Minefumi Ouchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer and a pair of electrodes. In a cross-section including first and second directions, at least one electrode of the pair of electrodes includes top, bottom, first side, and second side surfaces, the bottom surface being opposed to the top surface and closer to the piezoelectric layer than the top surface. A first angle between the first side sur...