ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,383, issued on June 30, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of manufacture of acoustic wave device with trench portions for transverse mode suppression" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan), Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan) and Benjamin Paul Abbott (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing an acoustic wave device is provided. The method of manufacturing the acoustic wave device comprises providing a layer of piezoelectric material, disposing a pair of interdigital transducer electrodes on an upper surface of the layer of piezoelectric material, each interdigital transd...