US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on June 16 for "Microelectromechanical drive for moving objects" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,015, issued on June 16, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Microelectromechanical drive for moving objects" was invented by Bert Kaiser (Dresden, Germany), Holger Conrad (Dresden, Germany), Shashank Shashank (Dresden, Germany), Keyvan Narimani (Dresden, Germany), Matthieu Gaudet (Dresden, Germany) and Sergiu Langa (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a microelectromechanical drive for moving an object, having electrostatic bending actuators, wherein each electrostatic bending actuator has a cantilever having at least one active element ...