ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,174, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic wave device having mass loading strip with buffer layer" was invented by Yumi Torazawa (Takatsuki, Japan), Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan), Yuji Yashiro (Kizugawa, Japan) and Kenta Morita (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device is disclosed. The acoustic wave device can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode formed with the piezoelectric layer, a temperature compensation layer over the interdigital transducer electrode. The interdigital transducer electrode includes a bus bar and...