ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,706, issued on May 26, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Extractor" was invented by Norihiko Nakahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extractor includes an external connection terminal, a common terminal, input-output terminals, a band elimination filter that is connected to the common terminal and the first input-output terminal input-output terminal and that uses a first frequency band as a stop band, a band pass filter connected to the common terminal and the second input-output terminal and that uses a second frequency band overlapped with at least a portion of the first frequency...