ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,595, issued on July 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Takuro Okada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Katsuya Daimon (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device including an IDT electrode on a piezoelectric film, in which a Z-axis direction of a crystal is different from a direction of a normal to a major surface. An overlap region of the IDT electrode includes a central region and first and second edge regions. First and second dielectric films are stacked between the piezoelectric film and first and second electrode fingers in the first and seco...