ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,098, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"MEMS device for interaction with fluids" was invented by Christoph Schelling (Stuttgart, Germany) and Timothy Schultz (Camino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluidic microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes fluid interaction elements (FIEs) that can be displaced by an actuator to generate fluid flow. The FIEs include a serial arrangement of cantilevered lever arms to achieve, for example, high sound pressure levels in a micro speaker or high pump rates in a micropump as compared to some conventional MEMS devices."
The patent was f...