ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,015, issued on June 9, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Kazunori Inoue (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuta Ishii (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Munehisa Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ventsislav Yantchev (Sofia, Bulgaria), Patrick Turner (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Bryant Garcia (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device is provided that includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode on the piezoelectric layer in a lamination direction of the support substrate and the piezoelectr...