US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on June 23 for "MEMS sound transducer having recesses and projections" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,195, issued on June 23, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"MEMS sound transducer having recesses and projections" was invented by Fabian Stoppel (Itzehoe, Germany), Malte Florian Niekiel (Itzehoe, Germany), Bernhard Wagner (Itzehoe, Germany) and Fabian Lofink (Itzehoe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe MEMS sound transducers for generating sound, having an actuator, wherein the actuator is separated from a surrounding structure by one or more gaps and is configured to execute a relative movement between the actuator and th...