ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,352, issued on July 21, was assigned to TAIYO YUDEN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic wave device, filter, and multiplexer" was invented by Koichi Sato (Tokyo) and Shinji Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided on the support substrate, at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes provided on the piezoelectric layer, the at least one pair of comb-shaped electrodes including a plurality of electrode fingers, a first intermediate layer provided between the support substrate and the piezoelectric layer, a second intermediate layer provided between the s...