ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,197, issued on April 21, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"MEMS transducer device for high-frequency applications, and manufacturing method" was invented by Domenico Giusti (Caponago, Italy), Fabio Quaglia (Pizzale, Italy), Marco Ferrera (Concorezzo, Italy), Carlo Luigi Prelini (Seveso, Italy) and Alessandro Stuart Savoia (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "MEMS device comprising: a signal processing assembly; a transduction module comprising a plurality of transducer devices; a stiffening structure at least partially surrounding each transducer device; one or more coupling pillars for each transdu...