ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,043, issued on April 7, was assigned to InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pressure sensor and manufacturing method for the same" was invented by Yoshitaka Sasaki (Uniondale, N.Y.), Jotaro Akiyama (Minami, Japan), Sal Akram (San Jose, Calif.), Yaoching Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Wang Shen Su (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tsung Lin Tang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Ting-Yuan Liu (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yuki Shibano (Tokyo) and Chung-Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensor includes a first electrode, a plurality of cavities, and a second electrode. The second electrode is disposed opposite the first electrode ...