US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Acoustic wave device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,169, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Acoustic wave device" was invented by Sho Nagatomo (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tetsuya Kimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takashi Yamane (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer made of lithium niobate or lithium tantalate, and first and second electrodes opposed to each other in a direction that intersects with a thickness direction of the piezoelectric layer. The first and second electrodes are adjacent electrodes, and, when a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is d and a distance between cen...