US Patent Issued to Cochlear on Feb. 24 for "Electromagnetic interference shielding of MEMS sensor via printed circuit board" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,327, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cochlear Ltd. (Macquarie University, Australia).

"Electromagnetic interference shielding of MEMS sensor via printed circuit board" was invented by Tom Meeusen (Macquarie University, Australia), Koen Erik Van den Heuvel (Macquarie University, Australia), Jan Vermeiren (Macquarie University, Australia) and Stijn Eeckhoudt (Macquarie University, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly is provided which includes a package and a printed circuit board. The package includes a housing bounding a region and an acoustic sensor within the region. The housing includes a base with a first hole....