ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,719, issued on July 14, was assigned to FORTEMEDIA INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"MEMS structure" was invented by Jien-Ming Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Wen-Shan Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Kai Mao (Tainan City, Taiwan), Feng-Chia Hsu (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chih-Yuan Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Nai-Hao Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS structure is provided. The MEMS structure includes a substrate having an opening portion and a backplate disposed on one side of the substrate and having acoustic holes. The MEMS structure also includes a diaphragm disposed between the substrate and the backplate and ex...