US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 2 for "Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) signal processing for contact detection" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,722, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Piezoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) signal processing for contact detection" was invented by Robert John Littrell (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and associated detection and classification of surface impacts using MEMS systems and signals. One aspect is a device including a memory configured to store an audio signal and a motion signal and one or more processors. The processors are configured to obtain the audio signal, wherein the audio signal is generated based on...