US Patent Issued to Knowles Electronics on Sept. 15 for "MEMS die and MEMS-based vibration sensor" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,313, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Knowles Electronics LLC (Itasca, Ill.).

"MEMS die and MEMS-based vibration sensor" was invented by Ken Deng (Schaumburg, Ill.), Michael Pedersen (Long Grove, Ill.), Richard Li-Chen Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Shubham Shubham (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Faisal Zaman (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration sensor/accelerometer includes, in various implementations, a MEMS die that includes a plate having an aperture, an anchor disposed within the aperture, a plurality of arms (e.g., rigid arms) extending from the anchor, and a plurality of resilient members (e.g., looped or folde...