US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 4 for "MEMS actuator, MEMS actuator drive method, and MEMS actuator control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,262, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"MEMS actuator, MEMS actuator drive method, and MEMS actuator control program" was invented by Takayuki Kurashina (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tomofumi Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Tatsuya Sugimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hiroo Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS actuator includes: a drive circuit for applying a drive voltage having a time waveform, which periodically repeats rising and falling and includes a period to be a constant voltage after the rising and before the falling, between a fixed comb electrode and a movable comb elect...