US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on April 14 for "Acoustic wave devices with improved heat management" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,634, issued on April 14, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave devices with improved heat management" was invented by Joshua James Caron (Summerfield, N.C.), Benjamin Paul Abbott (Irvine, Calif.) and Eesa Rahimi (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device can have a plurality of coupling portions configured to electrically couple electrodes of the device to the substrate of the device to provide a bypass current pathway through the substrate for heat management. The substrate can be a semiconductor material, which can become more conductive as the temperature increases ...