US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Aug. 11 for "Micro-electromechanical optical shutter with translating shielding structures and related manufacturing process" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,666, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Micro-electromechanical optical shutter with translating shielding structures and related manufacturing process" was invented by Federico Vercesi (Milan), Nicolo' Boni (Mountain View, Calif.), Fabrizio Cerini (Magenta, Italy) and Luca Guerinoni (Alzano Lombardo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MEMS shutter including: a semiconductor substrate traversed by an aperture; a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer, which form a supporting structure fixed to the substrate; a plurality of deformable structures, each of which...