ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,640, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Radio-frequency module and communication device" was invented by Naoya Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Uejima (Kyoto, Japan), Yuji Takematsu (Kyoto, Japan) and Dai Nakagawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-frequency module includes a mount board, an acoustic wave filter, a metal block, a resin layer, and a shield layer. The mount board has a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to each other, and has a ground layer. The acoustic wave filter is mounted on the first principal surface of the mount boar...