ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,418, issued on March 3, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Abhiraj Basavanna (Munich), Somu Goswami (Munich) and Andreas Bogner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device for use in a sensor device has a deformable membrane for the measurement of an acceleration, a vibration, or a pressure. The semiconductor device includes a deformable membrane having a membrane border; a structure holding the deformable membrane in correspondence of the membrane border; at least one electric contact to obtain an electric signal indicative of deformation of the def...