ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,288, issued on March 17, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Dielectric filter and dielectric resonator" was invented by Tatsunori Kan (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter device includes a laminated body, plate electrodes, shield terminals, a plurality of resonator portions, and a plurality of capacitor portions facing the plurality of resonator portions in a Y-axis direction, respectively. Each of the resonator portions is formed by a plurality of resonant electrode elements. Each of the capacitor portions is formed by a plurality of capacitive electrode elements. A part in each ...