US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on May 12 for "Capacitive MEMS sensing diagnostic mode" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,023, issued on May 12, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Capacitive MEMS sensing diagnostic mode" was invented by Philipp Greiner (Graz, Austria), Elmar Rudolf Bach (Villach, Austria), Stefan Gansinger (Graz, Austria) and Markus Haberler (Gleisdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensor includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device having a first pressure sensitive capacitor element, a second pressure sensitive capacitor element, a first reference capacitive element, and a second reference capacitive element arranged in a bridge configuration, a first output pad, and a second o...