ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,157, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Soitec (Bernin, France).

"Reflective structure for surface acoustic wave devices (SAW)" was invented by Sylvain Ballandras (Besancon, France), Emilie Courjon (Franois, France), Florent Bernard (Besancon, France), Thierry LaRoche (Besancon, France), Julien Garcia (Chamblay, France) and Alexandre Clairet (Misereux Salines, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device comprises an interdigitated transducer structure and at least one acoustic wave reflective structure provided on or in an acoustic wave propagating substrate. The interdigitated transducer structure comp...