ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,165, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of making acoustic wave devices with multi-layer piezoelectric substrate" was invented by Rei Goto (Osaka, Japan) and Hironori Fukuhara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an acoustic wave device includes forming or providing a substrate, forming or providing a functional layer over at least a portion of the substrate, forming or providing a piezoelectric layer over at least a portion of the functional layer, and forming or providing an interdigital transducer electrode over the piezoelectric layer. Forming or provi...