US Patent Issued to Connaught Electronics on Feb. 17 for "MEMS packaging enabling vertical displacement of sensor and actuator rotor" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,663, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Connaught Electronics Ltd. (Tuam, Ireland).

"MEMS packaging enabling vertical displacement of sensor and actuator rotor" was invented by Maurice Dore (Tuam, Ireland), Gerard Conway (Tuam, Ireland), Terrance Mcdonald (Troy, Mich.), Enda Ward (Tuam, Ireland) and Margaret Glavin (Tuam, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS device includes an electrical distribution substrate and a spacer ring extending upward therefrom. An actuator stator is positioned above the electrical distribution substrate and within the spacer ring. An outer frame extends from a floor of the actuator stator. An actu...