ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,670, issued on May 5, was assigned to Knowles Electronics LLC (Itasca, Ill.).
"MEMS bump stopper surface features" was invented by Ken Deng (Schaumburg, Ill.), Bing Yu (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), Michael Pedersen (Long Grove, Ill.), Nicholas Palcheck (Roselle, Ill.), Jeremy Johnson (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) and Richard Li-Chen Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor assembly comprises a substrate, a bump stopper extending from the substrate, and a sensor suspended relative to the substrate. The sensor is configured to move relative to the substrate, wherein the bump stopper is configure...