US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on July 14 for "Translational mass accelerometer" (Idaho, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,039, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Translational mass accelerometer" was invented by Paul W. Dwyer (Seattle) and Stephen F. Becka (Nampa, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometer device includes a proof mass comprising at least one of one or more isolated conductive coil traces or one or more pick-off combs within the proof mass, the one or more pick-off combs comprising a plurality of pick-off comb tines; a pole-piece layer coupled to the proof mass; and a return-path layer coupled to the proof mass, wherein the at leas...