ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,202, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Obsidian Sensors Inc. (San Diego).

"Crossovers for vacuum packaging" was invented by John Hong (San Diego), Tallis Chang (San Diego), Sean Andrews (San Diego), Jan Bos (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jia-Wei Ma (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, electromechanical systems including a semiconductor layer that has a planar surface and includes conductive and adjacent non-conductive regions and a hermetic seal applied above the planar surface and methods of manufacturing the systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, electromechanical devices that include first and second...