US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Acoustic wave device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,162, issued on March 24, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Hideki Iwamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the support substrate, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including a plurality of electrode fingers. The support substrate is a silicon carbide substrate including a 3C-SiC cubic crystal structure. The piezoelectric layer is a lithium tantalate layer or a lithium niobate layer. An SH wave is used as a main mode."

The patent was filed on April 28, 20...