ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,688, issued on July 28, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Piston mode generation in thin plate lamb wave device" was invented by Siarhei Dmitrievich Barsukou (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave resonator comprises a plurality of interdigital transducer (IDT) electrodes disposed on upper and lower sides of a piezoelectric film, the IDT electrodes on the upper side of the piezoelectric film being offset from the IDT electrodes on the lower side of the piezoelectric film by Lambda/4, Lambda being a wavelength of a main acoustic wave generated by the acoustic wave resonator to enabl...