US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Multiplexer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,172, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Multiplexer" was invented by Toshiaki Takata (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexer includes a transmission filter and a reception filter each including resonators including one or more series arm resonators. The transmission filter includes a piezoelectric substrate and a first series arm resonator unit on the piezoelectric substrate. The reception filter shares the piezoelectric substrate with the transmission filter and includes a second series arm resonator unit on the piezoelectric substrate. The transmission filter in...