US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 31 for "MEMS accelerometer with vertical stops" (Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,985, issued on March 31, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"MEMS accelerometer with vertical stops" was invented by Jun Tang (Gilbert, Ariz.), Jinglun Li (Chandler, Ariz.), Andrew C. McNeil (Chandler, Ariz.) and Aaron A. Geisberger (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS device includes a substrate, a set of spring, and a proof mass suspended above and coupled to the substrate by the springs. Each spring includes a corresponding anchor on the substrate and a beam extending away from that anchor. Each beam has a fixed end that is coupled to the anchor by a first linkage at one end of the bea...