ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,034, issued on March 31, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods of forming a temperature-stable, low-dielectric constant material with an ultra-low loss tangent" was invented by Michael David Hill (Emmitsburg, Md.) and Srinivas Polisetty (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of high Q, temperature stable materials with low dielectric constants. In particular, a two-phase material can form based on the rutile phase of titanium oxide along with a spinel structure of ZnAl2O4. This material can have a dielectric constant below 15 which is simultaneously temperature st...