US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Jan. 20 for "Compliant stops for mems inertial device drive PLL stability" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,562, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NXP USA INC. (Austin, Texas).

"Compliant stops for mems inertial device drive PLL stability" was invented by Mostafa Soliman (Waterloo, Canada), Aaron A. Geisberger (Austin, Texas), Margaret Leslie Kniffin (Chanlder, Ariz.) and Raghavendra N. Sridhar (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS inertial sensor device, method of operation, and fabrication process are described with a MEMS inertial sensor, drive actuation unit, drive measurement unit, and PLL circuit coupled together in operational engagement, where the MEMS inertial sensor includes a substrate, a proof mass position...