ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,170, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, an intermediate layer on the support substrate, a piezoelectric layer on the intermediate layer, a bonding layer between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, a low-resistivity layer between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, and an IDT electrode on the piezoelectric layer and including a pair of busbars and first and second el...