ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,591, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Surface acoustic wave device with shared reflector and temperature compensation layer" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan), Joji Fujiwara (Suita, Japan) and Kazuki Yamamura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface acoustic wave device can include a piezoelectric layer, first and second interdigital transducer electrodes in electrical communication with the piezoelectric layer, a reflector positioned between the first and second interdigital transducer electrodes such that the first and second interdigital transducer electrodes and the...