ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,017, issued on June 9, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Elastic wave device" was invented by Michio Kadota (Sendai, Japan) and Shuji Tanaka (Sendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic wave device capable of obtaining good characteristics while maintaining sufficient mechanical strength in an ultra-high frequency band of 6 GHz or higher includes: a piezoelectric substrate; an electrode in contact with the piezoelectric substrate; and an acoustic multilayer film in contact with the piezoelectric substrate and/or the electrode. The elastic wave device is configured to utilize higher-order modes ...