US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on March 17 for "Heterogeneous architecture integration of silicon photodiode and accelerometer" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,749, issued on March 17, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Heterogeneous architecture integration of silicon photodiode and accelerometer" was invented by Shrenik Deliwala (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel, modified MEMS accelerometer with additional ability to measure optical radiation due to integration of silicon photodiode in the silicon cap. The silicon cap is used to protect the MEMS based accelerometer from the environment. The function of the cap is enhanced to include optical measurement. The entire sensor element including accelerometer and photodiode (XL+PD) occupies no more sp...