US Patent Issued to Melexis Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Pressure sensor resistor configuration for stress compensation" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,219, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Melexis Technologies NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Pressure sensor resistor configuration for stress compensation" was invented by Ben Maes (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Appo Van Der Wiel (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Johan Vergauwen (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor pressure sensor comprising a membrane, delineated by an edge, and a group of neighboring piezo resistors: a first pair of piezo resistors near the edge of the membrane (a first piezo resistor RTmemb, a second piezo resistor RLmemb); a second pair of piezo resistors (a third piezo resistor RTref, a fourth piezo...